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I went to the windmill field to photograph it before sunset. This shot I pointed directly into the sun and shoot. When I was editing this image, and I was playing around with it, I noticed the perfect roundness of the sun, but I noticed a second spliced ring around it and somethings passing by. I didn’t know this, nor I ever came across with something like this before.
Lal Lal Wind Farms is a 60 turbine development in Victoria:
it is a 228-megawatt development built across 2,100 hectares of land in the Moorabool Shire, occupying sites at Yendon and Elaine near Ballarat.
The project will produce enough energy to power 95,000 homes, save 780,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually and help sustain the nation’s renewable energy needs.
Driving westbound I-70/US-40, around Mile Marker 237, viewing the many wind turbines that are part of the Smoky Hill Wind Farm off in the horizon.
Saline County, Kansas
Tuesday morning 14 July 2020
The motionless blades of this towering turbine give no hint of the force that the wind was flinging at me as I tried to photograph the Milky Way on Saturday night, 26th, October. With the turbine locked into its “stowed” position, the structure looks to be in a peaceful and serene location. In reality, the wind was gusting at around 40 km/h (24 mi/h), making it difficult for me to steady my tripod. After driving about 160 km (100 mi) to get to the spot, near Oberon, Australia, I couldn’t bear the thought of going home with no shots at all, so put up with the southwesterly blast.
Despite the forecast of a cloudless night, some of the dreaded fluffy floating fiends had started to move in not long after astronomical twilight ended. Along with the discreet clouds, a higher level of moisture in the air, in general, did its best to filter out a lot of the colours that are usually evident in my Milky Way photos.
For this single-frame photo, I used one of my favourite gear combos, made up of my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 20 seconds @ ISO 6400.
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He Went to Paris
By: Jimmy Buffett - 1973
He went to paris lookin’ for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressive, young and aggressive
Savin’ the world on his own
But the warm summer breezes
The french wines and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away
Then he went to england, played the piano
And married an actress named kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
And bore him a young son named jim
And all of the answers and all of the questions
Locked in his attic one day
’cause he liked the quiet clean country livin’
And twenty more years slipped away
Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
And left him with only one eye
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry
While the tears were a-fallin’ he was recallin’
Answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left england without a sound
Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin’s
And drinks his green label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin’ his hearin’
But he don’t care what most people say
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he’ll smile and he’ll say
Jimmy, some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic
But I had a good life all the way
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 1.6 seconds
Aperture f/14.0
Focal Length 23 mm
ISO Speed 50
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Energy shall be clean, inexpensive, dependable and safe. Dedicating this picture to those brave operators at the Fukushima reactor making "Existential Sacrifices" to save the world.
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A wind mill covered in the gold hue of a morning light as storm clouds swirl overhead outside of Malta, Montana.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time; the light this morning was very fleeting. And if had not been for the quickly approaching storm, this photograph would not have been nearly as interesting.
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland to circle the globe, took off in the early morning on May 2nd this year at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight took 16 hours. I had a big tripod with me and could blend in with the press to get a prime spot for takeoff. Preparations were long, but the actual takeoff happened very quiet and sudden. I took this shot at the time of take-off at 5am in the morning.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and desaturated the image.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6477_hdr1bal1e
Black and white view of a futuristic solar panel structure in Budapest, Hungary, capturing clean energy innovation.
In the 13th century, canals were dug to keep the polders (land) from flooding. As the land sunk and the river rose, a more extensive water project was required. 19 windmills at this site were built in 1738 - 1740. The windmills "pumped" the water to higher levels so it could drain back into the rivers.
Located at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers.
Driving westbound I-70/US-40 at Mile Marker 228, with wind turbines of the Smoky Hill Wind Farm off in the distance.
Ellsworth County, Kansas
Tuesday morning 14 July 2020
Sizewell C – October 2025, aerial view
Rising beside the familiar white dome of Sizewell B on the Suffolk coast, Sizewell C represents Britain’s next generation of nuclear power. The project will comprise two European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) producing a combined output of about 3.2 GW — enough low-carbon electricity for around six million homes.
The site was first earmarked for new nuclear development in the government’s energy strategy of 2008, and formal planning consent was granted in July 2022. Site preparation began soon after, with full construction now under way. The first electricity is expected to be generated sometime in the 2030s.
The station is being developed by Sizewell C Ltd, a company backed by the UK Government and EDF Energy, with additional institutional investors. EDF will oversee the design and construction and will operate the station once complete. It will use the same EPR design as Hinkley Point C in Somerset, adapted for Suffolk’s coastal conditions.
Current projections put the build cost at roughly £38 billion in 2024 prices, employing up to ten thousand people during peak construction. Once operational, the plant will run for at least sixty years, cooled by seawater drawn directly from the North Sea.
In the image, the broad cleared expanse inland of the beach shows the main construction zone, with temporary works and access roads fanning inland. To the south stands Sizewell B, in service since 1995 — a striking visual contrast between Britain’s existing and future nuclear eras.
Generation → Sizewell C Ltd (UK Government + EDF, UK/French ownership)
Transmission → National Grid plc (UK-based, shareholder-owned)
Distribution (local supply) → UK Power Networks (owned by Hong Kong’s CK Infrastructure Holdings)
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland circled the globe. One stop was at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California earlier this year in May. I got an invite to witness this historic flight.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight took 16 hours. I had a big tripod with me and could blend in with the press to get a prime spot for takeoff. Preparations were long, but the actual takeoff happened very quietly and suddenly. I took this shot shortly before take-off at 5am in the morning.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, carefully pulled the curves, and desaturated the image.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6450_hdr1bal1g