Should we remove pylons?

Should I remove the pylon? I do not want to. (Some of them are 50 or more years old and are beginning to blend in as much as churches and barns and cottages.)

I just had a print of this framed and the framer, who is a watercolourist, thought it was a shame about the electricity pylon and suggested I use software to remove it.

I didn't have the energy to justify why I want it to stay.

It's your picture....don't remove it.

Had to search a bit before I saw it.

I am one of those that sees little fault in doing some retouching (wether by hand or in PS) to get the image that you want. To me it adds to the "art" of photography. We have new tools that allows us to achieve the image as we "saw it".

In this case, I might be tempted to remover the tower.

Your call. I wouldn't.

It's your photo - you can do whatever you feel you need to do. Other peoples rules are for other people.

Sometimes I will wait for a train to pass or for a clear patch in the traffic so a road or railway is not evident. (Usually when they are behind trees.)

Maybe I will get a distant bird or aircraft removed using the 'stamper' because it just looks like dust.

So my photograph would show what anybody else could see if they also waited for a distant vehicle or bird to remove itself.

Is it 'right' to take out permanent features of a landscape though? Say someone liked a photo of a beautiful village and went there to enjoy it then realised that every house really had satellite dishes and telephone cables and the pretty lane was festooned with roadsigns and that the 'village' was surrounded by tower blocks which the photographer had 'removed'.

I know that removing a single electricity pylon from my picture here would change it little but would I not be just as guilty of trying to depict a 'fantasy'?

As an englishman who always rather liked how some pylons seem to stalk the landscape in procession, I say no. It's no more and no less unnatural than the church, the ploughed fields, the hedgerows, etc.

Nice photo, though - love your stuff.

I figure if you put it in your frame to start with, you ought to keep it. Nothing should be accidentally in your picture. I'd have been more tempted to crop it out "in the field," so to speak, than to zap it after the fact in PS.

Technically, by the way, if you're going to set about methodically removing all traces of the modern world, you might have to do some serious PSing to get rid of the tractor furrows! Or possibly delete the entire photograph as it most likely reveals modern practices of land distribution and use. ; )

Mike Johnston has some thoughts on removing a telephone cable somewhere. I think he's against it.

Me too. I just think it's precious and a bit vulgar, like a Ye Olde Tucke Shoppe.

Surely a man of your Chartist passions should be removing the church instead?