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Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.
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Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.
A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497
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Around Palm Springs CA there are a lot of turbines. They do dominate the landscape but then again so does the interstate and all the buildings.
@Asbestos @moz I find it interesting that people are reacting to my photo by getting weirdly defensive about wind farms.
@mattblaze@federate.social @Asbestos@pnw.zone @moz@fosstodon.org I’ve never yet had a bird object to how I photographed it.
@SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org @Asbestos@pnw.zone @moz@fosstodon.org That's presumably because the birds are over on the bird site.
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @Asbestos @moz
THAT YOU KNOW OF.
@tomjennings
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Steve,You better hope it's not a crow or raven that objects to your picture of the. They have long memories and will enlist help to menace their enemies.
@Asbestos @tomjennings @mattblaze @moz I took lots of pictures (and a few videos) of ravens this year, including some of a juvenile with a parent standing by—no trouble! As I always say, better a corvid than covid.
@SteveBellovin @Asbestos @tomjennings @mattblaze I have a resident magpie that does not like have its photo taken. It will tolerate me walking round my back lawn but if I get the camera out it disappears.
Which is better than their usual habit of declaring an area theirs and attacking anyone who goes into it.
@moz @Asbestos @tomjennings @mattblaze Fascinating. I've seen birds that fly off or move to the other side of a tree trunk just when I'm about to focus. Maybe it's not coincidence.
@SteveBellovin @moz @Asbestos @tomjennings At the SEPTA 30th Street station in Philly, there are these black balloon-like objects hanging from the rafters of the trainshed. They have a pattern that makes them look vaguely like an abstract giant eye. Apparently that's enough to make some birds think there's a big predator watching and move on to friendlier real estate. I wonder if the camera has a similar effect.
@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org @moz@fosstodon.org @Asbestos@pnw.zone
They might even know it's fake but just to creepy to tolerate!
One of our dogs doesn't like the phone camera. I doubt he knows what it does, more that it's a mystery thing and doesn't smell right and doesn't trust it.
He'll watch videos on the phone though if it's clear animal stuff. But that's common enough.
@mattblaze@federate.social It's often challenging to distinguish dogwhistling from "just making a comment".
I was reacting to the commentary more than the photo. And from Australia, where we get a lot of "look at this ghastly blight" discussion of wind farms. Hence the reminder that visual pollution might be annoying but air pollution kills and maims.
I suspect your mental context was "this is a cool photo" but "conquering the landscape" isn't a positive or even neutral framing.
@moz@fosstodon.org I wish you luck in your future efforts to save yourself from the embarrassment of making completely unwarranted assumptions.
@mattblaze@federate.social I obviously misunderstood your comment as a request for explanation. I didn't mean to upset you. I'm sorry for doing that..
@moz@fosstodon.org Yeah, I had no idea that fossil fuels polluted.
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I wasn't trying them and didn't think your post was attacking them. Just sort of a general observation. But I see your point