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Wind Turbines, near Tracy, CA, 2010. All the pixels, none of which actually cause cancer, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497 #photography
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This was captured near the Tesla substation (no relation to the car company) near Altamont Pass with a DSLR and a 400mm lens, compressing the turbines in a way that made them resemble a histogram. The
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The scale of these wind farms is beyond what we're equipped to process in day-to-day human experience. They conquer the landscape in ways we can't fully comprehend even when they're in front of us. In
Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.
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Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.
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Dec 31, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social I have seen lots of wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, but I realised that I don't understand how big they are only when I started seeing vanes being transported by road on enormous trailers. I still can't really fathom how something that takes thirty seconds to overtake on the highway can spin so fast (or the wind that makes them spin that way).
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