Monday, 20 January 2014

By a stretch of the imagination

Well, I thought about a Diplodocus immediately upon seeing this man made cloud shape although as with such wispy and ephemeral things the image alters rapidly and particularly so from a moving car.

The dinosaur is actually a trick to deceive the eye being an apparent convergence of the flumes of steam and other things from the smokestacks and cooling towers of, in the foreground, Drax and forming the grazing head, Eggborough, both Yorkshire, UK. 

The two flumes do not actually meet as there is a distance of perhaps 5 miles between the two power stations.



and to illustrate the illusion, a nice water colour representation   

Alright, it may not be evident to some people it passes the time on a long road trip.

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