[at-l] Maine Wind Farms

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C)]

Jim: Your views are right on. Unfortunately, 80% of hikers when shown the photo simulations created by the developer said they wouldn't be bothered by the wind turbines and towers on Redington, if the simulations illustrate what the towers would look like. I need an argument that refutes that hiker opinion, i.e. that even accurate photo simulations are inherently inaccurate in evaluating the scenic impacts of a development, because the human eye sees things that a camera lens does not, except when the lens is controlled by a skilled photographer.

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> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
> To: "Bob C" <ellen@clinic.net>, AT-L@Backcountry.net
> Date: Wed, Dec-28-2005 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Maine Wind Farms
> 
> At 11:18 AM 12/28/2005 -0500, Bob C wrote:
> >Comments by the many skilled photographers on AT-L are welcome. Please 
> 
> >offer any help you can about how best to word and document this 
> message.
> 
> Well you could start by noting that the term "scenic" implies natural 
> views, not industrial structures. Are these people who will be moved by 
> 
> aesthetic arguments? I doubt it. Their eye's are too clouded by $$$$ to 
> see 
> beyond the potential profits. I certainly would not be inclined to go 
> take 
> pictures of wind towers and if I want to shoot photos of spinning 
> flashing 
> lights, a carnival would be a better location. All this will do is 
> spoil 
> the natural view.
> 
> In one of his books on nature photography, the internationally famous 
> photographer Galen Rowell commented on the explosion of power lines, 
> etc. 
> in recent years. He showed 2 views of a very remote mountain scene that 
> he 
> had shot a few years apart. The later view had a line of electric or 
> phone 
> poles running right through it. Sad. Really sad. I can't tell you how 
> many 
> times I have found a great view but either didn't take the picture or 
> had 
> to clone out objectionable man-made objects (mostly power lines/cell 
> towers) because they spoiled the scene.
> 
> What makes it doubly sad is that they could just as easily build them 
> where 
> there was not a scenic view that rates as a National Treasure.
> 
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