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Guess this location has been shot from every angle available, but I wanted to try it, too. :) It is Kinderdijk - Unesco Heritage. my girlfriend and me arrived at the location at 7pm and so we only had around 45mins left to get a good shot. Unfortunately the light was not THAT good, so I decided to make a longtime exposure and adjust the light afterwards at home in post processing. I have two edits of this: One with this slight pink touch and another one with an orange. I prefer this edit more than the other one as it is more "dreamy". A more realistic look would be the orange one. Perhaps I will upload this at a later time. :)
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HatCat
Along the National Highway near Aralvaimozhi- Muppandal on the way to Valliyur, Tamil Nadu from Nagercoil.
It looks like one can find a windmill at every corner in Amsterdam. I found this one while biking around the canals.
After doing some research, I learned that it was the tallest wooden windmill in the Netherlands. Like most of them, it is not in use anymore, but still looks quite magestic.
Pirogovo, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
Some background information:
Originally Pirogovo used to be a village about 30 km south of the Ukrainian capital city Kiev. But nowadays the territory of historic Pirogovo serves as the location of an outdoor museum of folk architecture and life of the Ukraine. The museum, which was founded in 1969, comprises 370 acres of land and contains over 300 carefully reassembled buildings of folk architecture brought here from all parts of Ukraine.
Those buildings include commoner's homes, houses of small trade, commerce and local administration, old wooden village churches and windmills. They contain authentic items that represent the everyday lifestyle of Ukrainian villagers and townsfolk. Dressed in old-style clothes local volunteers and modern Ukrainian artisans sell their wares there and demonstrate the use of authentic everyday items to the visitors.
Pirogovo museum has been accorded the status of State Museum of Ukraine and is affiliated with the Institute of Arts, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
Great Haseley Windmill
Another one from the little Fuji XT-2 and the 10-24mm.
My first visit to this location been meaning to go for a while now. So went last Friday evening although the forecast didn't look promising but at least I thought I can scout the location out.
But as I often say to my darling wife you never know.
And I got some lovely light for all of 2 minutes to get this shot.
This picture was taken at the Whitelee Farm, which is the UK's largest windfarm. We were there hunting geocaches and ended up finishing the series in the dark as the sun was setting.
The windmill on Bidston Hill is mentioned in an early manuscript dated 1609 and may have been there as early as 1596. It is next mentioned in the Kingston map of 1665 .
The mill of 1665 was a “peg mill”. It was destroyed in 1791 during a gale. In the high winds, the sails revolved so fast that the friction caused the machinery to ignite!
In 1800, a new “tower mill” was built from brick to replace the peg mill. The tower mill ground corn to flour for 75 years. Situated on top of Bidston Hill, it was ideally placed to catch the wind, but getting to and from the mill caused no end of problems for cart drivers. The windmill could produce 122 lb (about 51 kg ) of flour every 3 to 5 minutes (depending on the wind speed).
The famous windmills of Kinderdijk rise high above the polder landscape of Alblasserwaard, their mighty sails proudly facing the wind. Still, these historical giants are just a small part of an enormous joint venture of people, nature, and technology. A thousand years ago, this whole area was one big peat bog, trapped between raging rivers and the fury of the sea. Hunters and fishermen came here only in summer, if the water levels were low enough..
got really enthused on the way to the airport-- never had seen the paddles of a windmill lit up :) so maybe this is an unintentional camera movement picture-- the car did the moving, not the photographer ~grin~
ANSH scavenger3 Alternative energy source – solar panels, wind turbines, etc.
Former windmill. Now an exclusive private home in Sandhurst, Kent, UK, close to the border with East Sussex.
The windmill
Is a spinning wheel
A massive metal flower
Threading breezes
Through her petals
Whirling hour by hour
Dizzy dancing
Day and night
A turning churning tower
Whisking winds
from all directions
Spinning air to power.