Robert Voit

Robert Voit's pictures highlight cell phone companies inability to disguise "ugly" cell phone towers in rural areas. The towers are often seen as eye sores and the cell phone companies attempt to cure this problem by masking them as objects indigenous to that specific area. In his pictures he takes simple pictures of the towers, which after reading the article, clearly become visible that the trees and or cactuses are false. To provide service in areas that are thickly settled in the woods, a company created a "tree" that stands much higher than the other trees and is built of materials that do not seem natural. In another picture, a company built a "tower" directly next to a real tree and it looks like a fraud. In another, there is a cactus that is surrounded by metal wires and the cactus stands probably twenty feet high. Its seems are also showing on the cactus which makes one ponder, is this real? Overall, i enjoyed the pictures because it gave me a laugh and also an insight into the cell phone company business. I like the way he captured the pictures by exaggerating how long and abnormal the trees and cactuses look.