Ignoring the carriages and peering straight through the steelwork it’s easy to forget this structure is an amusement ride.

A giant steel spiderweb or perhaps some archaic antenna searching for extraterrestrial life. In fact anything but the fun and games of a show.

I must admit however some deep and primal part of me would rather climb a structure like that. Now that would be fun.

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘The SETI Wheel’ 1/640 f/7.1 ISO100 15mm