Oh Me Oh My There's A Light In The Sky (Water Tower content)

Don't you just love an unplanned Bonus-Up?

This one kind of fell into my lap the other night when I got an unexpected opportunity to kill two birds with one stone:

A) Top a Water Tower.
B) Get up close and personal with monster green lasers that were flying around the night sky.

No Photoshop wizardry here and no taking the red pill, staying in Wonderland and seeing how deep the rabbit-hole goes, this shit really happened.

The two beams in shot six are coming from 5 miles away and form a 5 mile x 5.2 mile x 2.2 mile triangle.

This pair of towers were built around 1975 and are 35m high, the fat one that I topped holds 3.41 million litres and its skinnier neighbour holds 1.14 million litres.

As usual the clock was ticking and it was pitch black but I did manage to crack off the following shots...

Wrong Way Down


Heart of the machine


5 miles out






This Is Earth Calling


Lasers set to stun

That's some top notch photography there!

Looks like you had a wicked night

Stunning pics there mate! Almost looks like some sort of alien planet!

Fc*k me, that's some serious lasers... they're b-l**dy dangerous at that power. Our laser in our laser harp (don't ask) is 720mW and burns holes in paper so I imagine they were easily that power and probably more... what the hell was going on???

And you've got balls of steel climbing that! respect!

The thing we have at work burned a hole through a 3mm bit of tungsten plate. Great ptoto's remindes me of war of the worlds.

TeeJF said:

Our laser in our laser harp (don't ask) is 720mW and burns holes in paper so I imagine they were easily that power and probably more... what the hell was going on???

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I think these were 10w 'turned down' to 2.7w but don't quote me....I was more worried about trashing the CMOS on my camera than getting hit by beams myself......it was something to do with the Cultural Olympiad I think.

Absolutely top notch photography! What an explore!

tocsin_bang said:

I think these were 10w 'turned down' to 2.7w but don't quote me....I was more worried about trashing the CMOS on my camera than getting hit by beams myself......it was something to do with the Cultural Olympiad I think.

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Yes, I feel culturally enriched, alright. But that might be the curry we had last night.

Top draw mate
Looks like a scene from the war of the worlds
Great shots indeed .
SK

Never cease to bring the dogs danglies in the photo's bud nice work

Last time I saw lasers like that was at an Australian Pink Floyd concert. Cracking photos

now that's funky well done super bit of luck with the lasers

jonney said:

Last time I saw lasers like that was at an Australian Pink Floyd concert. Cracking photos

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Me too, although I saw them at the old Wembley in the mid 80's.

Great site and the quality of the photography is very accomplished as usual.

Thanks for sharing.

awesome thanks for the post

LOL! Love it!
Agree with the 'war of the worlds' look, btw. Great bit of serendipity there, Hal. Cheers.

Foxylady said:

Great bit of serendipity there, Hal. Cheers.

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Aren't serendipitist explores always the best explores....

Brilliant!!! Very different

Great Pics TB, but honestly, Not for a f***ing farm, I wouldn’t.

smiler said:

Great Pics TB, but honestly, Not for a f***ing farm, I wouldn’t.

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Farm?? what are you on about?