I kinda like all of them. My kid, when they were little, starting calling them robots. e.g. “Dad, look at that robot!”
> Most people seem to view electricity pylons as a blight - ugly landmarks towering over the landscape.
I don't view them as ugly either. There is some beauty in truly functional design imo.
But as part of nature? Set across an landscape otherwise made of plants and trees and hills?
For me, that's a million times no. I can't think of anything uglier or more jarring. The cold gray angular lattice skeleton feels like it couldn't be more opposite to all of the positive aesthetic qualities of nature.
I love it in a movie or an evocative painting or a comic.
I don't want it in real life, though.
Kind of like, I love watching Blade Runner. I don't want to live there.
Speaking for myself, I like it because it's jarring. It's a juxtaposition of geometric against organic. Pure function against purposelessness.
Of course, it's better than a plane hitting the house in the fog.
Some are painted green :)
Where?
That feels like it helps at least a bit, maybe.
When it comes to pylon shapes, I quite like this one because it vaguely looks like a goat: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZsmXL95mr1fknCqw7
That's the beauty of it. Same like a hiker wearing synthetic material clothes in a pristine nature range.
Funny you mention it -- I hate the neon day-glo colors of so much hiking and active outerwear as well.
For God's sake, try to blend in a little, you know? Earth tones, people. (Except in safety situations like hunting, obviously.)