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Not really a landscape per se, but these days more and more west

Texas landscapes have these in them or on the horizon. No big

manipulations here, just a little balancing and a bit of a crop.

Yes, we start to see those windmills here and there in France too. sometimes we buy them 2nd hand in the Netherlands :-). Speaking of the pic, it's a good idea to take the windmill with motion blur, but i'm not sure how you managed to do it in such conditions ? Since the light looks quite strong you couldn't use a very slow speed... and you say you didn't do much PT nor use a grey filter. Or was the windmill running VERY quick ?

I stopped down to f22 and shot it at about 1/5 of a second with the polarizer on. It was very late afternoon (near sunset) and I exposed for the face shadows. Being West Texas ... The wind was, as usual, blowing pretty hard, so the blades were indeed moving at a decent clip.

 

The only PS work on this picture was to crop it to a print size and to do a minor amount of color balancing (I shot it RAW) upon initially opening in PS.

 

I shot it several times at several different apertures and shutter speeds and this one just seemed to provide the best movement blur, while keeping fairly sharp focus on the bushes, which were also getting blown around a bit by the wind. Being below the cliff helped with that as well as the tripod's stability.

 

I have one from on top that I kinda like and will probably post later this evening ... It's of a line of them.