The Looming

Judgment day. . .

 

--Lannie

next to a volatile LOOMING....

That is a Water Tower right???  sometimes you don't have much of a choice - can only hope no harm comes it's way - great capture Lannie - excellent detail!

Nicely composed.

Mom, there is a flying saucer in our garden, no mom, i am not lying this time.

Cheers

 

PDE

You took the title right out of my mouth. It's what occurred to me even from the thumbnail. Shades of Roswell, New Mexico!

Thanks for all the comments.  Gail, it really is a water tower, but, yes, Michael and Jack, it really does look like an alien ship has landed just behind the house.  Thank you also, Chris, Jorge, and Pierre for your comments.

 

It really is right in the middle of a modest subdivision, immediately adjacent to houses on three sides.  (It fronts on an ordinary residential street.)  It actually does look like this.  Yes, cropping might have made it look even closer, but this is a truly massive structure--but on short, squat legs.  In the event of an earthquake (rare in these parts), the water from it would do a lot of damage, and the metal structure itself could, I believe, crush more than one house.  In winter it can be seen from a number of nearby locations quite a distance away, and it does have a rather surreal look from any and all angles.

 

--Lannie

Nice capture. I assume some of the obscuration is due to fog?

 

Jim Phelps

Thanks, Jim.  I estimate the ceiling to have been about five hundred feet above the water tank--making the reflected light off the top of the tank indistinguishable from the white cloud ceiling.

 

--Lannie