So...we went to Martinelli's, one of Erik's favorite places to go.
After dinner, I asked Paul if he had a little extra time and would like to go on a field trip. He agreed, so we headed west from Salina, heading toward Ellsworth on I-70. He filled me in on his engineering classes, and it turns out the subject of wind energy has come up in one of his classes. I filled him in on the back and forth debate over the wind farm in Ellis County as well.
We headed off the Interstate and hit some back roads. THEN we took Paul's little Honda OFF ROADING! It bottomed out once, but made it up the hill to where one of the turbines was. This photo was taken basically at dusk. Minimal sunlight, and mostly moon light. It was taken at 1/7 of a second, which is SLOW, but sometimes possible for photojournalists. :-)
So...it looks like Paul is going to do a college project on wind energy! Excellent! (yeah, this photo is a little blurry, but it's at about 1/7 of a second, which didn't hold still this time!)
This last one is NOT in focus at all, but I like the eerie feel of it ... sort of ghost like. I'd not been up close to a turbine in a long time ... and both Paul and I were certainly given a sense of perspective about our place/size in the universe.
I'm also hoping to make a longer term documentary project out of this wind project, which was also strongly contested. I'm going to apply for a grant next month, so we'll see what happens.
