Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.
A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497
#photography
Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.
A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497
#photography
@Asbestos @moz I find it interesting that people are reacting to my photo by getting weirdly defensive about wind farms.
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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
@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.
@mattblaze 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.