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Taken on the same day as my visit to Pendennis Castle - hence the moody sky 
Set in the dramatic landscape of the Lizard Peninsula Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station rises up from the heathland.
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large telecommunications site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, UK. Owned by BT Group plc, it was at one time the largest satellite earth station in the world, with more than 25 communications dishes in use and over 60 in total. The site also links into undersea cable lines. It is to cease satellite operations in 2008.
Its first dish, Antenna One (dubbed "Arthur"), was built in 1962 to link with Telstar. It was the first open parabolic design and is 25.9 metres in diameter and weighs 1,118 tonnes. Arthur received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite on July 11, 1962. It is now a Grade II listed structure and is therefore protected. The site's largest dish, dubbed "Merlin", has a diameter of 32 metres. Other dishes include Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde after characters in Arthurian legend.
I think the large dish here is 'Guinevere'
Thanks as always for your time, your thoughts/comments are very welcome.
Better bigger if you've time
Regards - Sarah x
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| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Anybody There |
| Username: | 
Sezz |
| Uploaded: | 17 Dec 2008 - 3:24 PM |
| Tags: | Cornwall, Future world, Goonhilly, Helston, Kernow, Landscape / travel, Lizard peninsula, Satellite dish, Telecommunications |
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I dont you why but I am very drawn to this, no insult intended, just find it eirie almost. Nice one
Great composition in this shot, love the tones in it too, never knew a thing about the place till now, thought you'd popped over to the states for a quick shoot! doh!
looks great huuuuuuuuge too,
regards, Lee
Sarah - this is a fabulous shot!! Not something you see everyday - unless you live or work there ofcourse!!
Andy
A really fab image Sarah, 3 diminishing focal points and an appropriate kind of sky, excellent write up as well, all the best John.
John
Reminds me of scenes from the film "The Arrival". Amazing structures with nice lines. The sky is great, and thanks for the info.
This really jumped out at me from amongst the thumbnails. Fantastic light and tones. Love the dark moody sky which contrasts so well with the orange-yellow tones on the left of the foreground. The detail of the satellite dishes and building is superb. Thanks for the great description.
Sylvia
Bit late aren't ya Sarah, my missus had ours up on first December!
Very si-fi Sarah, super definition in this shot, very well composed and captured, great image, Adrian
very effective shot Sezz, I like the atmosphere.
John
Fabulous detail captured Sarah.Well composed.
Tom.
Don’t some people make you want to spit!! Joking aside - we spent a week in a holiday bungalow on the Lizard during the summer and passed Goonhilly twice a day and kept saying we should visit this place and never did……
As the fishermen say - this is the one that got away!! As for you Sarah - extremely well captured and done. A very powerful image viewed here. Love it.
Dave.
Sarah, this is the second shot of yours this week i have had to put on my shortlist. This is bloody superb and if i could give my award now i would ... watch this space
Dave
Quote: It is to cease satellite operations in 2008.
must be almost done then?
A great capture Sarah.
Darren.
PS. If you waited until Boxing Day for the tree you'd have got a bargain 
You've done a superb job of these. The composition and colour treatment are first class but more than that these are representative of the 'age' - computers, communications, sci-fi and 'big brother'. John
I remember the days when you were supposed to pretend that these things did not exist. A figment of the imagination... Good. And scary.
Moira
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