An Amish windmill spins freely just before the sun sets on a chilly spring evening.

One of several old windmills on the hills above the Aegean coast of Turkey. Photographed during a summer holiday in 1995. Scanned from a transparency.

A windmill is a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. The main use is for a grinding mill powered by the wind, reducing a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains, by crushing, grinding, or pressing. Windmills have also provided energy to sawmills, paper mills, hammermills, and windpumps for obtaining fresh water from underground or for drainage (especially of land below sea level).

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Lytham Windmill

High Dynamic Range image of the windmill at Fabyan Park in Batavia, IL.

Rayleigh Windmill is visible from many places around the town,this was taken from Broadlands Avenue.

Halnaker Windmill on the South Downs in West Sussex.

Danish Windmill, Elk Horn, Iowa. This windmill was disassembled piece by piece in Denmark and shipped to Elk Horn, then reassembled. There were no blueprints, only a 1/10 scale model built by the man who disassembled it.

Zaanse Schans

windmills at scroby sands offshore windfarm

They are turning now most of the time.

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Windmill in thunderstorm

Windmills are pretty cool.

poor me...i've nothing to show except this old photo took months ago..

call it "lonely windmill" is becoz these windmill were stood by the beach side for couple years already and now are all useless for some reason which i don't know..pretty ironic to me..we spend lots of money on it and eventually dump it...built it up for energy saving & environment friendly..now became massive garbage..sighh.

Found a couple of old windmills on the Cedardale road.

Oldest windmill in the UK. Bedfordshire.

I had to go somewhere today and was hoping that I would come across some nice places. Turned out that I only shot this windmill.

A completely different model....

A lovely traditional windmill that has been restored and is owned by the National Trust.

The windmill village

Windmill 'De Woudaap' in Krommenie, The Netherlands on a crisp spring day.

Girl playing with a miniature Dutch windmill in Tainan, Taiwan's oldest city, that was founded by the Dutch

I was pleased wit my first go at a night star shot

Mods:

Better Than Wolves

Better Than Wolves Deco Addon

Treecapitator

Rei's Minimap

Texture Pack is John Smith's

The windmill at Cley-next-the-Sea , Norfolk.

Not taken under the best of circumstances this windmill in Biggekerke, Zeeland, Holland is special nonetheless. The miller makes the best flour for backing your own bread. From far and away custumors flock here to buy their flour. So did we yesterday.

Windmill in the village of Oia, Santorini.

Standing tall against wind...

Another view of the windmill

A fully functional windmill that was imported and re-built. They use it to grind flour that they sell in the village.

Minolta Maxxum 7, Minolta 24-105mm D lens, Kodak Ektar 100. Summer 2014.

Near the border of IA and MN.

Near Newlyn, Victoria, Australia.

3 June 2008.

windmill farm, Cohocton,NY

A lovely traditional windmill that has been restored and is owned by the National Trust.