Windmill

[DEAN01]

This is a work in progress. This windmill is across the road from my house and it is beginning to fall apart. Today I noticed if the wind gusts were just right it would spin for a short time, something I wanted to capture. So, I shot this, the sky was a dull whitish blue, looks awful in color. I'll keep trying to capture the windmill with a better sky, clouds, etc., but often it never spins on those days. C & C always.

[Sergio M.]

Dean,

Seems like a really interesting ongoing project.

In your current composition, I can imagine the windmill creating a breeze and causing the branches to move.

Sergio

[Manfred M]

Dean - your shot brings back some childhood memories of going for a drive in the country and seeing Aeromotor wind-powered water pumps at almost every farm we passed by. You are right, the few remaining ones I have seen are usually falling apart and most would not turn even in gale force winds (they'd probably get knocked over, in truth).

A comment on your B&W conversion. It's very muddy and the image looks quite underexposed. Consider pulling in your white point to brighten things up. In general, in a B&W image, you should have the full range of pure black to pure white in the shot.

[wilgk]

One can never go too far wrong with a windmill subject.

[IzzieK]

Interesting shot...about 1/250 shutter speed? Your EXIF was truncated.

[Wavelength]

Very interesting

[bnnrcn]

I wouldn't wait for the clouds to come as they might be distracting. IMO it looks better without the clouds. An interesting and nice image

[DEAN01]

Thanks to all for your viewing and comments.

Manfred, I appreciate your suggestions. You are correct about most windmills being in disrepair. I recently met a man who helps maintain the windmills on the King Ranch. The ranch is slightly large than Rhode Island.

Izzie, shutter speed was 1/10 of a second (using ND filter).