[Larne]

I used to live in Essex. One of the reasons my photography declined was the near impossibility of taking a landscape photograph that didn't have electricity pylons stepping across it. Wind turbines are no different, they still draw the eye and while they can be more obvious than pylons there are a lot less of them and they at least look a bit more elegant.

I imagine the countryside lobby was up in arms when pylons were first rolled out, and even today people don't generally want one in their back yard, but we have come to accept them now as a normal part of life. Eventually it will be the same with wind turbines, they will become familiar and accepted by default.

A couple of hundred years ago I expect people were complaining about the wind-driven mills and pumps that were cropping up all over the place.