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Hard for cattle to get a meal or drink out here so I assume they are being fed somewhere. Here is a view down the wind crusted and undriven windmill access road, without the warming flare of the sun in the Front Range. I expect any water in the tanks is frozen solid but Eddie would kill us if we trod the road. The sky tries to clear, as seen in the sculpted ruts, but would rather play hide and seek. The drive has untracked but rutted snow; this is the agricultural year's dead season. Today is January, and it may make the 60s while tomorrow is slated to be warm. Many don't believe in global warming but get ready for a burning summer anyway. You'll have to crank up that air conditioning fired by coal.
Some of us gathered on Christmas day and headed east out on an EddieTrek. This location is the first of the outing after we headed out Eisenhower Boulevard, east of I-25. This year this area was the recipient of a white Christmas, if slight, as you can see on this frosty morn. Today brought us highly filtered but enveloping light seldom with patches of sky. This image should convey the short lived chill across the land. It is unlikely the cattle are straying from the feed yards today. The windmill remains the only nice touch in this wintery scene.
This should be a day of photo discovery if this lighting continues for the morning. We need to beat a hasty retreat later for the Christmas meal.
My cliche Saturday submission. Used my Canon 60mm F2.8 for this one. A grab when driving past the field. Wife and kids were sat in the car shouting that I get a move on! Underexposed for the sky as I planned on a HDR. The poppies were the only ones in the field but I thought they led the eye in and broke the green of the wheat up. I used F11 on this one to ensure the windmill was just a little out of focus. I have been trying to adapt and not just to do the F16/F22 thang
I have wanted to shoot a Windmill for awhile, but haven't been able to find one that i've liked. So driving around the other day I spied one from the road, swung the car around and went for a walk. Would like to go shoot it at night with some nice star trails, but it might have to wait for another time. There was this cool little dam/pond thing just behind me but was all in the shade and couldn't incorporate it into this particular shot, but i'll give it a go next time.
I'm attempting to work out a deal with a farmer on obtaining this windmill for my backyard. It doesn't pump anymore anyway. Wish me luck.
(and it's an original Chicago Aermotor too!)
Happy Windmill Wednesday to all. I'm new here and love windmills.
Camera: Nikon F55
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 28-80mm 3.3-5.6
Film: Agfa APX 100
Aperture: F8
Shutter speed: 1/1000
Developer: Fomadon R09 (1+40, 12 minutes)
Scan: CanoScan 9000F Mark II
Sorry, everyone! I have been away these last two long weekends, and far too busy in between to post anything. We were at a wedding one weekend, so I snapped this at the gardens.
Today the weather was grim, nice and cloudy, with lots of lovely dark shades of cloud, perfect for a picture I have had in mind for a while. I have been wanting to shoot Chesterton Windmill for ages, and wanted to shoot it with the ten-stop with a really brooding stormy sky with some nice storm light on the windmill. Today looked like it was going to be perfect.
So, with promising skies and a foreboding looking weather forecast, the kids and I set off for an afternoon of shooting. When we arrived.... it was bright blue sky and barely a cloud in sight!!! grrrrrr.
The kids managed to pass half an hour or so messing about, and chucking one another in stinging nettles and generally beating one another up, and we adopted a dog which found us, with a lovely slobber covered ball which I had to chuck repeatedly for ages, as when i didn't throw the ball it sat on my camera bag. I am sure... it knew exactly how to ensure my compliance.
I then resorted to desperate measures, and shouted to the kids... "it is lovely weather, lets have a picnic" after half an hour the black clouds rolled in true to picnic form, and I got my shot, and we didn't have a picnic anyway! we just went to Nando's. Yum.
Well, except they messed up my sons order. Bless him, instead of a plain burger, they gave him a medium hot piri piri burger, I didn't know that colour red was possible for a person to go ... it matched the chilli peppers he was munching on. 1 bowl of frozen yoghurt later and he was able to laugh about it.
A successful day, Photographer 1 - Weather 0 (mwahahahaha)
(The info bit - This unique windmill stands on six stone pillars, supporting two raised floors. It was built in 1632, from a design attributed to Inigo Jones, and worked until 1910 when its machinery broke down. It not clear if it was originally intended as a functional windmill, or as a folly - an observatory has been suggested, which in many ways makes more sense. )
A view of Lytham windmill with the church of St John The Devine in the background.
Lytham Windmill website:
Fun shot taken while I was at Johnson's Pumpkin Farm. Saw the sun back lighting this windmill and had to get a shot.
Another great sight in Amsterdam - a Dutch Windmill! Make sure you see one on your river or ocean cruise! www.theluxurycruisecompany.com/
Der Wind, der Wind weiß wer ich bin
Der Wind, der Wind treibt mich dorthin
Der Wind, der Wind bleibt mir im Sinn
Der Wind, der Wind weiß wer ich bin
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