h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FWR:

Those of us who live in shipbuilding towns regularly get that eye-jarring scene. Massive steel constructs poking up out of the tree line. Monochrome makes this one doubly interesting, a sense of abandonment maybe? The hedge obscuring the heli-deck and the bare tree mimicking the grid work of the drilling platform give a surreal feel to an everyday shot.


DG:

Shapes, shapes, shapes. I love all the shapes.

There is something spooky about this.

I feel it belongs in a story of a project gone wrong, a development abandoned, an industrial site left for the trees to move in.

We will soon see derricks on the land that advjo0ins my street. Two large apartment buildings are to be built there (45 feet tall).

But my facetious caption for the picture would be about an evil wizard who turned Derek Noakes, Derek Jeter, Derek Olsen, and Derek BHough to derricks.

Wow, that will be a massive change to your area, paulh - all the best with that... I hope the noise etc will not be too disruptive...

The photo is excellent- fascinating geometrical patterns indeed

The builders seem to have thought of everything. The noise tends to be steady, and never louder than a certain amount.

If that is Derrick's, who do the rest belong to?

If that is Derricks where are the dominoes?

Oh, this isn't the caption contest!
Time for a sharp exit