Windmill Zeddam

Richard, I think this is a nearly psychedelic picture of a Dutch windmill. Very good ! It shows Holland can look extremely exotic and nearly Spanish (when, finally, the sun shines... Have a look at my windmills in that drab grey cold Dutch winter landscape). I would not worry about the missing top of the propellor, that's immaterial.

Do continue like this !

Hi Sam, thank you very much for your positive comments. Comments like yours inspire me and adds to the fun of photographing!! I appriciate it.

It would be nice if more people would take the time for a build-up comment, instead of just rate.

My 2nd request on this one. Lot of ratings, but not too many

comments. Please let me know why this photo is good or why you think

it's not. What could I have done different etc?

Very nice landscape/architectural photo. A nice scale between the large windmill and the smaller building in the background. My one comment, I wish the windmill wasn't in the center, possibly if it was closer to the right it would be more interesting.

I think you selected the right lens. Personally speaking I dont need to see all of the sails completely to appreciate them. Two suffice. And with what appears to be a featureless sky you would have made the subject smaller in the frame in order to introduce a tiny section devoted to the sail ends with the remainder devoted to an empty sky. As an example of what I mean I think the blue sky under the sail on the right is excessively empty. Its excessive because of the church spire under the left sail. You notice the left is occupied and because the windmill is central instinctively go to check on the right and find nothing. It would be different if there was a tree on that side. Or a cloud in the sky.

 

So Ive uploaded a crop concentrating on the near/far or dominant/subordinate relationship of the windmill to the spire for your consideration. I think it another way of saying what Gerald was saying.

Phil.. I almost didn't recognised my own photo after you did that! ;)

It looks so much more interesting this way!

 

Very learnful comments. Thank you!

I believe it may have been better to not have cropped the top sail of the windmill; I feel that the cropping gives a feeling of incompleteness.

On a nice winter's day. I saw about the samen colors and light. Well done,

 

Bram