The Singing Ringing Tree...

[Korky]

Snapped yesterday on our walk high on the moors above Burnley.

 

This is one of Lancashire's panopticons and is a sculpture made of galvanised tubes - the idea is that the wind blows through the tubes and creates a 'song'. On the right day, it's very effective, but on the wrong day......

 

Mrs K is in there to lend a bit of scale.

 

Shot on the iPhone and given a cheap and cheerful edit in CS4.

 

Korky

 

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[Phil]

Remove Mrs K and the shot is nothing. Excellent pic of a very unusual sculpture

 

And you're showing your age with that title

[annie]

wow what a view korky. mrs k looks dwarfed by that thing!

[NannyFerret]

Yes, The shot is complete with mrs K.

I would love to hear the wind blowing through it.

[bugmeister]

Remove Mrs K and the shot is nothing. Excellent pic of a very unusual sculpture

 

And you're showing your age with that title

 

Agree totally on the first comment as Mrs K makes the picture complete by adding the sense of scale.

 

Can't comment on the second observation as I don't know the reference   must be before my time

[Korky]

Thanks for the comments - always appreciated.

 

I compared this with the shot I took without Mrs K and your right, she did make the shot so much better. I bought her a sherbet dab as a thank you.

 

Korky

[Creativesnaps]

Never really taken pictures with my phone but after looking in this phone forum, i will be having a go.

A nice image Korky.

[DaveS]

That's different, a challenge to the Angel of the North perhaps, albeit on a smaller scale

 

I bet it could sound quite eerie at night, with the wind in the right direction

 

Would they be Wind Turbine that I can see in the distance?

 

Dave

[Korky]

Hello Dave

 

Yes they're wind turbines - a bit of a blot on the landscape, but as it's just a snap I took on my 'phone, I couldn't be bothered cloning them out.

 

Korky

[DaveS]

 "a bit of a blot on the landscape"

 

Yep, they are becoming the more or more prolific unfortunately.

 

Not so bad out to sea, and over here on the East Anglian coast, they are springing up like weeds.

 

Dave

[Guest]

lovely image and the sense of prospective gained by adding Mrs K is great. As for the wind turbines I must be one of the few people that quite likes to see them, I dont see them as a blot on the landscape at all