I sat down on the rocks next to Fellows Lake Trailhead East (see map above) with my camera on a tripod less than two feet above water level.

Here is an unzoomed shot across 2.5 miles of Fellows Lake.

Here is a zoom shot of the shore 2.5 miles away from 2ft above water level.

Here is the pumphouse at 2.46 miles away from the same camera height. The crane and pylon in front of the pumphouse is 2000ft closer, or 2.08 miles from Trailhead East.

Here is the pumphouse from the west side of Fellows Lake.

Another closeup of the pumphouse for comparison to the zoom shot (above).

A view of the pylons from the west side of Fellows Lake. They are about 2000ft in front of the pumphouse from my vantage point at Trailhead East.

A crane on a pylon.

Here is a zoom from an elevated position near the dam and across the lake to the State Highway 215 bridge and to the shoreline beyond. I am easily 30ft above water level in this shot.

I climbed down to the rocks below and set the camera less than 3ft above water level for this shot. Unfortunately, there just aren't many good straight-line views on a lake with such a wrinkly shoreline.

The bridge is not quite one mile away from my observation point.

I was able to get this shot of the bridge from less than 3ft above the water, but it is obscured by the wrinkly shoreline in front of it, and the bridge is only a mile away to begin with. It is not far enough away to test for curvature. I want to head east on the shoreline to get a better straight line view beyond the bridge, but the dam and fenced off government property prohibit me from doing this. While Stockton Lake is bigger by volume than Fellows, I am unable to get a longer straight-line shot.

Lake Michigan is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume (1,180 cu mi (4,900 km³)) and the third-largest by surface area (22,404 sq mi (58,030 km²)). See Wikipedia for more info.

I set up the camera 5ft above water level on Bradford Beach and got two good shots, one at 4.2 miles and the other at 20 miles.

At 4.2 miles it is possible to read this street sign. It is Exit 3 for the Port of Milwaukee off I-794. The thickness of the atmosphere is apparent but the letters are still legible.

Exit 3 from Google Street View for comparison.

At 20 miles the Oak Creek Power Plant's 550ft tall chimney is visible through the thickness of the atmosphere.

From Bechtel's website: "Oak Creek’s 'boiler' buildings are 270 feet (82 meters) tall. A common chimney serving both units rises even higher, to 550 feet (168 meters)." Notice that the chimney is right on the shoreline of Lake Michigan.

The two smokestacks are barely visible in this unzoomed shot from 20 miles away. The land in front of the two chimneys is St. Francis WI, a mere 8 miles away. The shoreline of St. Francis curves inward obscuring the base of the chimneys from my vantage point on Bradford Beach.

Here is a better shot of St. Francis 8 miles away and the Oak Creak chimneys 12 miles farther beyond, for a total of 20 miles away from Bradford Beach. My camera is 5 feet above water level.

For example, in this edited photo, I dropped St. Francis in the midground 29 pixels (at 1.569 pixels per foot) for 18 feet of curviture at 8 miles and I dropped the background chimneys 312 pixel for 198 feet of curviture. This is how it should look according to the math. I should not be able to see the chimneys at all as they would have been completely hidden by St. Francis 8 miles away.

The original unedited shot for comparison.