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The present windmill on Brill Common in Buckinghamshire, was probably erected sometime in the 1680s. Although not quite the oldest windmill in England, it is one of the best preserved of the dozen or so 17th century post-mills still standing. A post-mill is a mill in which the whole structure revolves around a central post in order to face the wind.
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Our Daily Challenge .... unexpected. Today we went to Tenterfield, 21/2 hours west of here, to meet up with my sister. On the way home I was keeping an eye out for something for this challenge but didn't really think I would find anything as the sun was setting rapidly and it would soon be too dark. Then I remembered seeing this windmill on the way over so I asked Colin to pull up when he saw it. I definitely wasn't expecting the bonus sunset behind the silhouette and was very pleased when I saw it.
I saw some cheap glow sticks in the super market and thought they could make cool light streaks if strapped to someone breakdancing.
I wanted experiment with this technique so I strapped two glowsticks to my legs and did some windmills. I used a 3 second shutter time and an off-camera flash to freeze the motion. The camera was set on the self-timer.
The glow sticks were pretty dim so it was very difficult to get an exposure without the ambient filling the scene even with the lights off. I ended up strapping a powerful flashlight with the glowsticks to over power the ambient. In the final image my buddy hiski was holding a sb-900 back camera right and popped the flash manually using the test button.
STROBIST: SB-900 1/8 power, back camera right. 200 mm zoom. Triggered manually by VALS using the test button.
Taken from the road - with my Tammy 70-300 mm lens, at the 300mm end - handheld, with no VR - so quite pleased with the sharpness considering!!
Dropped in on the town of Lytham and captured this windmill on the sea front.
Looks nice on black - 'Windmill at Lytham' On Black
Made it to Explore on 16th March 2007!!!
Happy Windmill Wednesday - taken a few weeks ago - a pale rose sky provided a nice opportune. I have been lax in my weekly posting of wind pumps - but catching up. HWW
Missed a day of my photostream yesterday because of a road trip (on-going). This is along I-65 somewhere in Indiana.
Happy Windmill Wednesday - I had another windmill planned for today but forgot to pre for transfer to flicker. But I had this grand-daddy size one to bring you a HWW
inspired by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/7142336@N04/] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/49187672@N02/] :-)
The Wilton Windmill is a five-floor brick tower mill located on a chalk ridge between the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire.
The mill was built in 1821 because the construction of the Kennet and Avon Canal had included the canalisation of the River Bedwyn which had previously powered several water mills in the area. ref Wikipedia
Kinderdjik is an area outside of Albasserdam, NL that has perhaps a dozen original and working windmills. It's a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Fabyan Windmill, located in the Fabyan Forest Preserve in Geneva, IL, is a Dutch windmill built in the 1850s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabyan_Windmill
Camera: Sigma SD14
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 EX DC Macro
This windmill is in a small park next to the abandoned TLE&W - Maumee River Bridge.
Photographed using an Olympus EPL-1 using the 17mm pancake lens and a Hoya R72 IR pass filter.
The South facing side.
Sibsey Windmill was built in 1877 to replace an earlier post mill. In its day it was the ‘Rolls Royce’ of windmills, and one of the very last to be built in Lincolnshire. It has been described as “one of the finest mills in the country, with its slender tower and elaborate wrought iron balcony.”