"If you can’t beat it use it, since power lines are a photographer's worst nightmare let's use this to our advantage. So find a cool landscape, sunrise, that would look great except it needs the dreaded power lines to mess it up, and throw in a billboard too, they are just as bad.. :-)"
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqH0Zry_6XOSfE5UR-Hjm1s0HhBEPudwrqVjYKmq6T719N7v7HplF1vCKi4CiqGux5Tz4bN1flf1jE4V80bsyIRC_Z3WoIwETJUnoGHxrFQexGqhHg4nx75i4swMhmvSr-xzU_nxWSpArZ/s400/ssline3.jpg)
Miss Aria in the morning fog earlier in the week. I ain't so much on the power lines, but I suppose if you look hard enough, you might like the symmetry between the two lines and the two fences.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Tr-6cTlewbz2VshNEmeFW8S_KH6ZZWkTg3nESA0VEOKJT8sF-_7x1uAs8X6v2LvrqtGOgBOz-pX3MtlDYVVmWfDJnjLepJzbcmZViUh1Tw0hoK2pWUPcTuN_elX1UgSIYGSepxN8qtcH/s400/sslines2.jpg)
Panning right, you've got your basic power lines and the "power lines" on the ground. Equally offensive, but very effective for sheep pasture rotation ;-).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisoSqgrfmGJ-InX0ZGMGD2jNuFouE0e8V3NjCGrktpeesHpm8oC6UQ62hxym7ajQUJzC8LhqUsMjOMWwU__66r1auP69JZxKok4wwn9wDlgqNi-xBvr2XUHGTALrAzSSv6JVAebTyETdjv/s400/sslines4.jpg)
Here is one from the archives. As soon as Ed posted the challenge, I immediately remembered this picture. I love this valley - just up the road - but was frustrated to see the shot ruined by the power lines. Little did I know, just a few months later, I'd be happy I took it ;-).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_9G6VSfUojh5nWms96XvnR2mgc-FvktYnbm3aFUvCFaXGZzaxZo2ASej5TEpr_XHHdFB9ukO8F-b-DGfPADv-Dwzu2VALfMXdiTt1DHr90obzHLzHYF68KyZhK5Z5sVpKuCOkhPVuJU3/s400/sslines5.jpg)
But still, I like this cropped view better. Wouldn't be nice if we could just crop out all the ugliness in the world? (As always, click to biggify.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzgrq2YsED7BgnvPOZVhd1TR6u4_elX7YAoZ055wOcxcWneuZ8Jc6pkQPiCBBDMBObVP3iw4RvNKaq-47STTk73M_tWLJB7H_X58LNwN5XqBxld9lcq-ERxMt17-BsaEhD6EQQ3OjHU_h5/s400/sslines1.jpg)
And here is a shot of the sunrise over Stella's house back last winter. Until I started looking for power lines, I'd never noticed the criss cross in this picture.
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![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqH0Zry_6XOSfE5UR-Hjm1s0HhBEPudwrqVjYKmq6T719N7v7HplF1vCKi4CiqGux5Tz4bN1flf1jE4V80bsyIRC_Z3WoIwETJUnoGHxrFQexGqhHg4nx75i4swMhmvSr-xzU_nxWSpArZ/s400/ssline3.jpg)
Miss Aria in the morning fog earlier in the week. I ain't so much on the power lines, but I suppose if you look hard enough, you might like the symmetry between the two lines and the two fences.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Tr-6cTlewbz2VshNEmeFW8S_KH6ZZWkTg3nESA0VEOKJT8sF-_7x1uAs8X6v2LvrqtGOgBOz-pX3MtlDYVVmWfDJnjLepJzbcmZViUh1Tw0hoK2pWUPcTuN_elX1UgSIYGSepxN8qtcH/s400/sslines2.jpg)
Panning right, you've got your basic power lines and the "power lines" on the ground. Equally offensive, but very effective for sheep pasture rotation ;-).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisoSqgrfmGJ-InX0ZGMGD2jNuFouE0e8V3NjCGrktpeesHpm8oC6UQ62hxym7ajQUJzC8LhqUsMjOMWwU__66r1auP69JZxKok4wwn9wDlgqNi-xBvr2XUHGTALrAzSSv6JVAebTyETdjv/s400/sslines4.jpg)
Here is one from the archives. As soon as Ed posted the challenge, I immediately remembered this picture. I love this valley - just up the road - but was frustrated to see the shot ruined by the power lines. Little did I know, just a few months later, I'd be happy I took it ;-).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_9G6VSfUojh5nWms96XvnR2mgc-FvktYnbm3aFUvCFaXGZzaxZo2ASej5TEpr_XHHdFB9ukO8F-b-DGfPADv-Dwzu2VALfMXdiTt1DHr90obzHLzHYF68KyZhK5Z5sVpKuCOkhPVuJU3/s400/sslines5.jpg)
But still, I like this cropped view better. Wouldn't be nice if we could just crop out all the ugliness in the world? (As always, click to biggify.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzgrq2YsED7BgnvPOZVhd1TR6u4_elX7YAoZ055wOcxcWneuZ8Jc6pkQPiCBBDMBObVP3iw4RvNKaq-47STTk73M_tWLJB7H_X58LNwN5XqBxld9lcq-ERxMt17-BsaEhD6EQQ3OjHU_h5/s400/sslines1.jpg)
And here is a shot of the sunrise over Stella's house back last winter. Until I started looking for power lines, I'd never noticed the criss cross in this picture.
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