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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...
A sunset shot from Wilton Windmill, Wiltshire.
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The Mykonos windmills are iconic feature of the Greek island of the Mykonos. The island is one of the Cyclades islands, which neighbour Delos in the Aegean Sea. The windmills can be seen from every point of the village of Mykonos, the island's principal village, which is frequently called the Chora on Greek islands. The windmills are the first thing seen when coming into the harbour of Alefkandra, as they stand on a hill overlooking the area. Most windmills face towards the North where the island's climate sources its strongest winds over the largest part of the year.
There are currently 16 windmills on Mykonos of which seven are positioned on the famous landmark hill in Chora. Most of them were built by the Venetians in the 16th century, but construction continued into the early 20th century. They were primarily used to mill wheat. They were an important source of income for the inhabitants. Their use gradually declined until they ceased production in the middle of the 20th century. Their architecture is similar. They all have a round shape, white colour and a pointed roof and very small windows. Such windmills are found in almost all Cyclades islands. One of these windmills has been transformed into a museum. The whole village of Chora and part of the harbour are visible from this point.
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.
Morgan Lewis Windmill that is having conservation work carried out and will be on show to the public soon.
Morgan Lewis is one of the only two intact and restored sugar mills in the Caribbean.
..in Alkmaar.
..Alkmaar is a historic city in the Province of North-Holland in the Netherlands, about 10 km inland from the coast, and 40 km north-west of Amsterdam. The city's population is about 95 000, the whole urban area has about twice that number. Alkmaar is the regional center for the northern part of the Province, serving about 600 000 people. The city center preserves the 17th-century pattern of canals and narrow streets, and has many historic buildings..
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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."
Kinderdijk near Rotterdam, a place were windmills like to come together to worship the wind. But not only windmills, I had to try hard to keep the American, Canadian and Japanese tourists out of the picture.
This is another pure picture, only cropped, no HDR used.
A walk across the salt marshes on a bright and sunny day, to the charming little village of Cley.
The windmill was built in the 18th century and is now run as a bed and breakfast.
With the nearest newsagents situated several miles away, I was delighted to find an elderly gentleman selling Sunday newspapers from his cottage sitting-room window. :-)
Cley, North Norfolk, England.
The Netherlands is so closely associated with windmills, that it's often the first fact people recall about the country. The Dutch built windmills for many centuries. The mills were developed for corn milling, land drainage, saw milling, and in fact all manner of industrial purposes.
In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries were approximately 10,000 functional windmills in use in the Netherlands. Many mills were demolished after the arrival of electricity. About 1100 mills are throughout the Netherlands still standing and complete workable. They are preserved as important cultural and historic sites and are very popular tourist destinations. A number of characteristic mills was rebuilt in the Nederlands Openluchtmuseum (Dutch Open Air Museum).
The first mill is a Poldermill or Drainage windmill for draining polders in Noordlaren (Province of Groningen), built in 1862, relocated in the Dutch Open Air Museum in 1960. It uses an Archimedean screw to force up water. This is a screw-shaped device that is able to raise water by two metres.
The mill in the background, a Wind-driven Sawmill, a paltrok or postmill used as a sawmill, is from Numansdorp (Province of South Holland), built around 1680, relocated in the Museum in 1928.
This sawmill is a large sawing machine, a mill for the production of planks and poles, etc.
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Nederland is nauw verbonden met windmolens. Wij bouwen al eeuwen molens voor allerlei industriële doeleinden: korenmolens, drainagemolens, zaagmolens, enz.
In de 17e, 18e en 19e eeuw waren ongeveer 10.000 windmolens in gebruik. Veel molens werden gesloopt na de komst van de elektrische energie. Nu staan er nog circa 1100 over heel Nederland verspreid. Het merendeel werkt zelfs nog. Ze worden in tact gehouden als belangrijke culturele en historische bezienswaardigheden, en zijn populaire toeristische attracties. Een aantal karakteristieke molens is gered door ze te herbouwen in het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum. Op het 44 hectare grote museumterrein zijn alle in Nederland voorkomende soorten windmolens te bezichtigen.
De eerste molen op de foto is een poldermolen voor het voor het droogmalen van de polder bij Noordlaren (provincie Groningen). De molen is oorspronkelijk uit 1862 en verhuisde in 1960 naar het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum.
De molen op de achtergrond, een houtzaagmolen, een paltrokmolen die werd gebruikt om boomstammen tot planken en palen te zagen. Deze molen is rond 1680 gebouwd in Numansdorp, in 1854 naar Dubbeldam (Dordrecht) verplaatst en in 1928 verhuisd naar het museum.
Dit is een grote zaagmolen zaagmachine, een molen de productie van planken en palen, etc.
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