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The only surviving windmill on the Isle of Wight
This little gem is a Grade 1 listed building and one of the island's most iconic images. Built around 1700, it last operated in 1913 but still has most of its original machinery intact.
Climb to the top of the mill then find out how it once worked as you descend its four floors.
Also, because there is a fence in this shot...Happy Fence Friday Folks !
A regularly captured windmill in Buckinghamshire, UK. It has been photographed in all seasons from all angles but never before by myself so I tried something slightly different.
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Actually used to pump water rather than grind grain, these windmills are rented homes and the renters must run the windmills as required to maintain proper water levels.
The Kinderdijk UNESCO World Heritage site is a unique icon of Dutch water management and control.
Although this pic would not win an originality price, these windmills should be on any photographer's bucket list...
This is from Lerkaka on island of Öland, Sweden. Five well-preserved windmills are lined up on the crest and does its historical imprint of a bygone era.
"moinho de versos
movido a vento
em noites de boemia
vai vir o dia
quando tudo que eu diga
seja poesia"
- Paulo Leminski
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Kinderdijk windmills: unique & iconic water management
A significant part of Holland is situated up to approximately 7 meters below sea level. The Dutch don’t notice any of this though, because an incredibly innovative and intricate system keeps the ever-rising seawater from flooding the land. Even during spring tide, the Dutch are safely guarded from being washed away…
The most important aspect of UNESCO World Heritage Kinderdijk is undoubtedly the unique collection of 19 authentic windmills, which are considered a Dutch icon throughout the entire world.
(As seen in: www.kinderdijk.com/ )
No wind, not even a breeze... That's not good for a windmill. Let's give it some purpose!
It's a very nice warm summer day. I'm ridding my bike and suddenly this windmill appears. Standing up straight and posing for the camera. I've got a subject, some lines and the village Maasland makes a nice background. All I have to do now is press the shutterbutton. Click!
Texture by ~Brenda-Starr~.
A windmill in Netherlands worth to be treated in a classical Dutch painting style. What does it mean is explained very well in wikipedia:
... "A more realistic Dutch landscape style developed, seen from ground level, often based on drawings made outdoors, with lower horizons which made it possible to emphasize the often impressive cloud formations that were (and are) so typical in the climate of the region, and which cast a particular light.
Favorite subjects were the dunes along the western sea coast, rivers with their broad adjoining meadows where cattle grazed, often with the silhouette of a city in the distance. Winter landscapes with frozen canals and creeks also abounded. The sea was a favourite topic as well since the Low Countries depended on it for trade, battled with it for new land, and battled on it with competing nations.
Important early figures in the move to realism were Esaias van de Velde (1587–1630) and Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634), both also mentioned above as genre painters – in Avercamp's case the same paintings deserve mention in each category.
From the late 1620s the "tonal phase" of landscape painting started, as artists softened or blurred their outlines, and concentrated on an atmospheric effect, with great prominence given to the sky, and human figures usually either absent or small and distant."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consuegra#Windmills
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