Critique Welcomed A Solar Boiler

[Brian Moore]

This is one of the three solar boilers at the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant in the Mojave Desert of California.

Sigma Quatro SD.

 

[Dave Farnes]

That is a fine landscape. The contrast between the colours of the foreground and the blues of the distant mountains and sky gives it a real depth and sense of scale.

 

[Brian Moore]

That is a fine landscape. The contrast between the colours of the foreground and the blues of the distant mountains and sky gives it a real depth and sense of scale.

Thank you, Dave. Much appreciated.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Very nice Brian. I like the range of colours and the traces of sunlight from the reflectors.

 

[Brian Moore]

Very nice Brian. I like the range of colours and the traces of sunlight from the reflectors.

Thank you Milan. Much appreciated.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Lots more from this shoot if you click on it. Braw stuff, Brian. I like the lead-in from the telegraph wires on the far left. That Sigma is a killer.

 

[Brian Moore]

That Sigma is a killer.

It does OK doesn't it, Rob? Thanks for the comments.

 

[Pete Askew]

Fabulous stuff, Brian - I've missed your shots and am so pleased you have returned. Love all the radiating lines in the image. I guess the apparent lineation of the plants is due to their distribution in the arid soil.

 

[Brian Moore]

Fabulous stuff, Brian - I've missed your shots and am so pleased you have returned. Love all the radiating lines in the image. I guess the apparent lineation of the plants is due to their distribution in the arid soil.

Thanks a lot, Pete. I really appreciate that. About the plant distribution: totally random I guess,...at least insofar as a gardener would be concerned. However, Mother Nature has her own methods of distribution which, though mysterious to me, I believe to be far from random.

 

[Pete Askew]

Many plant in arid regions show a uniform distribution pattern as they compete for water and so end up regularly spaced. This can then result in apparently linear paths when viewed at the right angle.

 

[Brian Moore]

Many plant in arid regions show a uniform distribution pattern as they compete for water and so end up regularly spaced. This can then result in apparently linear paths when viewed at the right angle.

Yeah that's it,...that's what I meant!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Simple science, Brian. No need to invent fairies, mysteriously controlling life. That kind of thinking leads to war

 

[Pete Askew]

Or at least a no-go zone at the bottom of the garden!