We don't have many that look like this around here - ours look more like the one @320days posted above - but there is a Dutch town just a few miles from here that has several.
My county is famous for windmills (it's often called the Mühlenkreis = mill county) but I've never shot one, what a pity!
Will definitely shoot one in Spring or so :D
These are great - and I agree - maybe it's because they are symmetrical and gentle giants too.. and perhaps often in open spaces? Here's the only one of mine
I love the older, traditional windmills, but not the new ones. The old ones are fabulous. I'll have to find the picture I took in Holland of a windmill at Kinderdijk in 1992 or 1993. I walked off the paved path (bad idea) to get just the right angle with the tall grass and sun behind it. Next thing I knew, I sunk up to my knees in very stinky mud. It was awful. I had to sit down to keep from sinking further. My husband set he video camera down to record it, then came out carefully to help free me from the mud. He had to stay back a good bit. I must have just taken one step too many and found the soft ground. As he's trying to pull my feet out of the mud, a tour guide with a bunch of Japanese tourists came by, asked it if was a joke, then left us a small travel pack of tissues by our video camera! LOL! I had to change clothes in the parking lot by our car (luckily, it was a fairly empty parking lot). I think I ended up throwing my shoes away because I couldn't get the smell out of them. LOL! Now I really have to go find that picture. I'm sure it's in an old photo album somewhere.
I found the photo album, took pictures of my pictures, and edited them into this collage:
There is a windmill not too far from my house that is built in an old European style. It's very out of place but delightfully charming. I made a special trip one early summer morning to catch it in soft sunlight before there were visitors.
I had no idea this thread was running and purely by coincidence I took this shot whilst out walking yesterday.
It's Thorpeness windmill on the Suffolk coast
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These are more typical for our area.
Will definitely shoot one in Spring or so :D
I found the photo album, took pictures of my pictures, and edited them into this collage:
It's Thorpeness windmill on the Suffolk coast
We stopped by Kinderdijk after spending the day before in Keukenhof Gardens
Typical Texas windmill