Moment for a Monument

Lucky me, I took my camera with me today. I had to do some shopping.

It rained and I didn't expect to shoot something but you never know.

While I had to stop for a traffic light my eye felt on something

which rises above the houses and which I'd never mentioned there

before. It looked like the top of a sail arm. After driving around

through narrow streets I covered this old and retired beauty. It was

difficult to take a shot of it because it's surrounded by houses. I

had not the possibility to take a unobstructed shot of it's

frontside, alas. I hope you like it at this way.

 

I appreciate your comments very much. Thank you.

Fantastic colours, sky and forms.

The longer I look, the higher the rating I will give to you.

I see often such monuments in my area but you captured it in the right duch way!!!!

I'm afraid some other raters didn't watched as long as you wachted my shot.:((( But I don't give a damn for that stupid ratings. For me the comments are important. And with your comment I'm very happy, brother. You made my day, uhh... night in the meantime;~)).

Very nice capture Ada. Even on my monitor that is going dark :-(

So nice to see you here. That's a long time ago. Thank you for your comment. I gonna take a look at your place, I promise you:))

I believe I have a postcard somewhere of a famous painting that looks like this windmill! Vermeer? I don't know - but I think you did a great job of capturing this fellow without a bunch of surrounding buildings...The sky is good and makes up for not having more interesting light on the subject, I think. So, you are like me and drive off in the middle of errands in search of a good photo opportunity! You are smart to have the camera always with you - I missed a beautiful sunset this evening for lack of film...:(((

Cheers, dear! Lee

Lucky Ada to have a camera with you at this very moment. There are so many times when I see good images but alas, no camera at my side. So frustrated. You have captured a beautiful tinted sky & chosen a good angle. The tower seems to reach towards the sky.

I feel very honoured that you see something in my shot which let you think at Johannes Vermeer. But Vermeer was not a real landscape painter. Except two paintings, he only painted interiors and portraits.

I think you have seen a postcard with a mill of Jacob van Ruysdael. He was a Dutch painter of landscapes and he was and is very famous because of his magnificent skies. I've searched on Internet for that particular painting you probably meant. Alas, I can't find an image of it. I've found an other painting of his hand. I will show it to you because I like it very much. Ruysdael painted it about 1665-1670.

Nice you dropped in again. Funny, I had the same thought about the mill's arm. It looks to reach extremely high. Thank you for your kind words:))

Very nice work, Ada, and it's the kind of scene we have come to expect from that beautiful country of yours.

 

Nice Photoshop work, too.

If I ever unpack those blasted boxes I'll find the one I mean! It MUST be at the Rijksmuseum, because that's where I got the card (I think! Oh, well... Guess I'll have to unpack). Thanks for this lovely picture, though - This Spring when the bluebonnets are out I'll take some pics for you of Texas windmills...almost as much of a cliche around here as your Dutch ones, probably! I really like the Greek ones,though, don't you? Don't you have any relatives in Greece that we could all go visit?).

Lee

Ada, what I see as original here is the way you have captured the " wings" of the mill( is it still a working one? ).

I like as well its rusty color against the yellowish sky. Nicely capturedmy friend. Pnina

I love wind Mills and this one looks great we had one in Kent it is still there but nothing like this one.

Hia Ada...i'm just curious...are windmills rare now in Holland or what?...thought there was lots.

Ada said she had trouble shooting this one so as to not get any town buildings in the frame. So it goes. Next time I'm down in San Antonio I'll take a shot of the Alamo for you - totally surrounded by city buildings! They just reconstruct it out in the countryside when they make movies about it...

Ada, I like the formal quality of this shot with the sails edge-on and the door and windows right in the middle. I have done a quick version in PS (I hope you do not mind) where I have lightened the mill and foreground a little. I just did it quickly so it needs more work to finish it.

Thank you Lannie for your kind words. You have the same impression of my country as Paul I think, that Holland is full of mills, and that is not so strange. Nearly every postcard with greetings from Holland shows mills, tulips and wooden shoes. We preserve that image by ourself. Of course we have our mills and a lot of them are still working, but not so much that we are used to see them everywhere and each day. In the earlier days every little village has it's own mills (corn- and watermills). But since the time we posses electricity the grindproces is largerly takenover by factories. A lot of unused mills were dilapidated or demolished. But now we have a special association which fight for conserve the mills. Also this cornmill is out of use. It's a monument now and will be renovated, happily.

 

Lee, please unpack all those boxes. I'm thrilled to see that postcard and other pictures of yours:))) Yes the Greek mills are great. Those pittoresque white ones against a deepblue sky! So romantic!

 

Dear Pnina, no as you can read above, this mill didn't work anymore. It looks a bit neglected, the windows are boarded up. I'm happy they gonna renovate it, should be a wast to loose this typical Dutch monument, don't you think?:((

 

Hi Michael, the shape of the Dutch mills is very typical. Like you say, I've never seen mills like this in England or Scotland:((.

 

Hey Paul nice to have you here! Yes in the meanwhile this kind of mills becomes more and more a curiosity, just like the wooden shoes. ( I've even never wear them). Tulips we still have plenty of. Sometimes we send a little remnant to Canada, have you mentioned that? (LOL)

 

Dear Colin, I'm very grateful for the work you did. The mill looks much and much better now. I should like to know how you have done this, leaving the sky in it's original state. Can you explain the method to me, or is it a very difficult job? I'm not so skilled in PS. But I should like to learn the trick:))

Hi Ada now i see the meaning thanks. That may be typical of Holland you are right but my viosion has changed a bit. i see mills being converted to growing pot, and sexy women picking tulips and wearing wooden shoes. Such a place of character.. and being below sea level, with global warming it may change much more :((

Lucky me, Paul, untill now I live at the highest place of the country, 16 meters above the sealevel. But if we did do nothing against the airpolution, about a hundred years even our house is disappeared under the advanced water of the North Sea. Your grand- or greatgrandchildren will spend their holidays at the German North Sea coast and will return home with wooden shoes and little Delftsblue mill's which they've found on the bottem of the sea while they were deep-sea diving.

Can you imagine, Paul? All those sexy Dutch girls lost for ever? I wish we could turn the clock back to do it all over again. But let's hope, when we all put our hands together we will be spared for that catastrophe.

 

So, take your bicycle instead of your motorbike, one little lamp next to your PC is enough to read and write comments, making love in the dark can be very exciting and if you like to see with who you are tumbling, do IT by daylight:)))) LOL.

de kleur maakt de sfeer. Doet mij denken aan Mondriaan, hoewel daar de kleuren en het licht gans anders waren, maar toch...

Een bijzondere en aparte foto.

 

Bram

Haaaaa you are too funny. I watched this long show on Venice and Holland about the water. I try to never leave the pc so it saves gas and always type in the dark so can see girls webcams much clearer. This image would make a good subject to do ps effects on Ada... waiting to see that.

Ja echt Hollands sfeertje, kan niet missen he? Het 'Mondriaanse' zie ik er zelf niet in. Ik heb twee werkjes van hem aan de muur hangen. Ja, copietjes dan wel hoor. Misschien ken je ze. Twee bomen. Een 'normale' en een blauwe en die gaan een beetje de richting uit van de abstracte kunst. Nou dat kun je van mijn molentje toch niet zeggen. Dat staat vast. Maar misschien heeft Mondriaan meerdere stijlen. Heb me verder nooit zozeer in hem verdiept. Ik zal er eens naar op zoek gaan op Internet (als ik tijd heb) LOL

 

Groetjes, Ada.:))).

You'r a sweet and a smart guy. Always your answers ready. Besides, what do you have in your mind as you speak about PS effects in or around the mill? I'm very curious to know. And if you like I give you permission to live yourself up on it, because I have ideas and imaginations enough, but I didn't have the capicities to realise them in PS:(((

I like the subtle colors and tones here. Well seen!

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