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A Nuclear Plant in a Small German Town
I spent the first night in Boehlen, Germany. It was a tiny town about an hour south of Leipzig. I noticed when I drove up that there was a nuclear power plant there right by the town.
(note: Doblonaut below said this is actually a "1800 Megawatts brown coal-fired power station")
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Sue Cloutier, XiXiDu, milliped, nina_theevilone, and 204 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Abduljalil Al-Nasser (70 months ago | reply)
our poor planet is paying the price :-\
Different Wave Photography (70 months ago | reply)
Nice treatment and tones. Great capture of that smoke
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Cliem1 [deleted] (70 months ago | reply)
Wow, what a great picture!
lorrainep [deleted] (70 months ago | reply)
very cool!!!! not the fact that they have a nuclear plant though..arrgghh
graphicgreg (70 months ago | reply)
Ominous and forboding
thouzndwords (70 months ago | reply)
graphicgreg took the words right out of my mouth! And yes, you did a wonderful job with the handling of the steam/smoke
Sue Cloutier (70 months ago | reply)
Gorgeous capture.
Anirban Brahma (70 months ago | reply)
wow!! amazing!
Jeff Clow (70 months ago | reply)
Excellent imagery, Trey......the rising steam/smoke is quite a visual treat.
Nicely done.
XiXiDu (70 months ago | reply)
Cool :) - We are shutting down all nuclear facilities by the way. There are no new ones build and the current ones have a limited time after which they have to be shut down.
Doblonaut (70 months ago | reply)
I'm sorry, but I have to correct you. This is not a nuclear power plant, it is a 1800 Megawatts brown coal-fired power station in Lippendorf, near Leipzig ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Lippendorf ).
Nevertheless, this is a phatastic shot with a great treatment.
amataiclaudius (70 months ago | reply)
Lovely juxtaposition of images.
Stuck in Customs (70 months ago | reply)
Aha - my mistake... I saw the plant and it looked like all the nuclear plants I have ever seen - my bad!
Es war einmal ... der Wolf! (70 months ago | reply)
Very nice, impressive treatment!
But if that really is a nuclear power plant, than that "smoke" is nothing but steam from cooling towers and it probably does not smell very much. (I'm not a fan of nuclear power, but because of the high potential risk and the radioactive waste and not because of air pollution).
But there is no nuclear power plant in germany, south of Leipzig anywhere near Böhlen. So I doubt it is one (unless you were somewhere else). Nevertheless these towers look like cooling towers and the "smoke" like steam.
Be aware of the chimneys with "smoke" you don't see - it is probably much more toxic!
Sorry for being such a smart-ass ;-)
edit: oops, seems like I'm a little late ...
Stuck in Customs (70 months ago | reply)
Yes - it is steam of course...
Nuclear Power is statistically the safest and most efficient power source in the world... I'm a big fan of it.
ChuckTofu (70 months ago | reply)
A nukin' good shot!
insashi_GaLLeRY (70 months ago | reply)
fantastic shot, pretty scary!
Rahul Sadagopan (70 months ago | reply)
Gorgeous Trey!
Love the "wide" angle
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Christopher Chan (70 months ago | reply)
Holy smoke (literally) !!! This is a sensational shot. Don't breathe in too deeply while you're there.
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iessi (70 months ago | reply)
wow, wonderful work
Marco Libra (70 months ago | reply)
Interesting job with the wide angle... Did you use a particular lens or it is retouched?
.:: Tomz ::. (70 months ago | reply)
wow man!! this is so dramatic!...love it
ronsho © (70 months ago | reply)
Trey, this is apocalyptic atmosphere shot. I'm in apocalyptic mode lately and so is my shot today...
Siddhartha. (70 months ago | reply)
marvelous
EugeniusD80 (70 months ago | reply)
Very powerful composition! Big dark smoke clouds over peaceful countryside!
DitB [deleted] (70 months ago | reply)
Coal ... maybe it was a coal plant that can be seen then in one of my most recent shots (sunrise shots, check the "cooling towers" as I first thought they were) ...
Mark Turnbull (70 months ago | reply)
Excellent shot, looks like a twister from the thumbnail!
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*Photo Jen* [deleted] (70 months ago | reply)
very cool
ja | castillo (70 months ago | reply)
A sign of our times...
Thank you.
GreyGooseMartini (70 months ago | reply)
Nice place to visit...would not want to live there ;-))
Very dramatic photograph!
Hege Schjønhaug (70 months ago | reply)
I really like the composition. It almost looks like the house is being sucked into the smoke.
Es war einmal ... der Wolf! (70 months ago | reply)
@Trey: it is quite a little difficult to compare efficiency of different power sources.
But, anyway, how can it be the safest? One Chernobyl in history (you have some great pictures from that area in your stream) is enough to make it statistically the most dangerous power source in the world.
And I have never heard about dramatic accidents in a wind energy plant. But I have heard a lot about accidents (or 'irregularities') in german nuclear power plants (which are the 'safest of the world' - at least thats what they are telling us) in the last weeks.
e.g look here: Handelsblatt
travisbda/ On part time. (70 months ago | reply)
Wonderful colour tones detail and composition.
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Stefan0.emme (70 months ago | reply)
This brilliant photo is like a shooting star, splendid!
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brian doucette (70 months ago | reply)
Great composition.
CC Chapman (70 months ago | reply)
This picture evokes a bunch of different emotions. It's an amazing contrast in colors and worlds. Part scary and part serene
Nada* (70 months ago | reply)
cool picture...but yeah, you should change the description...no nuclear power station makes this kind of messy smoke :-))
rtv75 (70 months ago | reply)
Very very very cooooooooooool
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Fried Toast (70 months ago | reply)
Excellent, as always ;) Sigma 10-20mm? or Nikon 12-24mm?
Back in '94, I saw a reactor in China belching out orange smoke/steam. Nasty.
Mix Master Mart.. (70 months ago | reply)
Holy smoke, great shot!!!!!!
Heliøs (70 months ago | reply)
nice wide-angle :)
Asbahi.net (70 months ago | reply)
wonderful work
SkyShaper (70 months ago | reply)
amazing. well done. perfect.
mashishka (70 months ago | reply)
Amazing! A Fave...
work2snap (70 months ago | reply)
that scares me and I hope you are ok...
very impressive
jazzpic (70 months ago | reply)
Not nuclear but still spectecular...
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pschmutz (70 months ago | reply)
drama!
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Alan Jordan (70 months ago | reply)
Nuculer, coal, it's still scary.
Sergio Ribero (70 months ago | reply)
very beautifull
AGrinberg (70 months ago | reply)
Very expressive shot.
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