Windmills by auntietk
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Wind farm in Nebraska.
On our way back from Kansas I took a LOT of pictures out the car window. Coming upon these windmills just as the sun was going down was one of those special visual moments when you're glad to have a camera in your hand!
I'd never been on the prairie before this trip. When the sun went down that evening, the whole sky, as far as I could see in every direction, was showing a rainbow of colors. I'd heard the prairie sky described as "the bowl of the sky," but never understood that phrase until I was out there. The sky really does seem like a bowl inverted over the land.
I was sure I'd be bored out of my mind as we drove through the Midwest, but it was quite beautiful and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Comments (33)
MrsRatbag
Look at that gorgeous light! The golden-blue hour, eh? I'll bet you got a lot of great captures, I always wish I could do that but I'm usually the one driving ;~p This is marvelous!
DananJaya_Chef
It's wonderful, excellent shot.
bazza
Wow looks good in the sunset, nice capture!!
babuci
Wonderful evening mood, the colors are amazing. Glad you have so much fun on this trip.
Faemike55
Very beautiful light and wonderful capture, Tara.
GiMi53
Some people don't like modern windmills in the landscape...but I think they are pretty ! Good shot from the car ! :~)
bmac62
A new term for me but most appropos. Wonderful glow... Reminds me of the gigantic piece of a windmill tower we saw moving down the interstate. :*
emmecielle
Fantastic lighting and perspective! Excellent shot! :)
beachzz
The colors are wonderful; what a glow. Don Quixote would have been thrilled!!
jayfar
Very beautiful image.
cfulton
A wonderful part of the experience - beats windmills of the mind! Great silhouettes! Clive
makron
Very wonderful image
durleybeachbum
A revelation to me as well as you! Amazing image.
Vialliy
That must have been a very exciting experience all those beautiful colors.
fredster66
Great photo... really gives a sense of the vastness of this area...
neiwil
Given the uproar when these things first started appearing, they may not 'blend into the landscape' as we were first assured but they do make an interesting focal point.Just imagine that picture without the windmills.
flavia49
excellent light
Chipka
There have been dull and chilly trips from Chicago to Pontiac, Illinois--with a truck load of I-Cat X-ray units, dental chairs, hygenist's stations, etc...and with such loads bound for downstate Illinois, not only have we passed wind-farms beneath the bowl of the sky, but we passed such fields in the process of sprouting...those blades are enormous and are often transported by trucks that drive very, very slowly, especially when you're behind them on a one lane back-road in the no-passing zone. That's actually when you see how whompin' big those things are! And to see them as you saw them is a sight that I have come to cherish. There are such wind-farm fields just outside of Dortmund, Germany, and others in the Czech Republic. Seeing them in the Midwestern USA, however, is quite an experience, since they're just as big as the implied inverted bowl. Here in Chicago, we call that bowl a dome. We've just gotta be diff'rent, ya know. I love this shot. It's quite atmospheric in more ways than are overtly obvious. I love the colors, the sense of twilight, the sweeping grace of those triple blades. In short, this is marvelous. Perfect. Gorgeous. I can almost hear them; they make an impressive "whump-whump-whump-whump-whump-whump" noise at about, oh, say...a good 80-whumps-per-minute.
Ra3vyn
Oh wow!! Stunning capture, I love this. The lighting, colours... excellently done!
costapanos
Amazingly beautiful Tara, I love the color and atmosphere that you caught here. Reminds me so much of growing up in Texas especially the colors. love the glint of light on the windmills. Well seen!
jocko500
you bored...lol never thought you be bore as you see life everywhere. cool shot
CoreyBlack
Hi there! Trying to make as many comments as possible but... I love highway shots and traveling by car. You and the road and the scenery flying by. And to have a camera just makes it all the better. This is a great shot that really puts you in the car and is infused with that particularly American sense of motion. They way you captured the starkness of the windmills at dusk is wonderful and quite unexpected. One of the many curious sights that keep you moving on to see what's over that next horizon. The Midwest can be dull, but also nicely contemplative sometimes and we do get some fairly amazing skies. Great work as always and thanks for all your kind words.
lyron
Very nice shot!!
wysiwig
Looks like they are all lined up for some aerobics class. I know what you mean about the prairie, it can be very beautiful. After awhile you are hoping to see something above sea level, a small hill, a pile of dirt, a bump in the road, anything that isn't flat.
helanker
It is a very beautiful shot of a wonderful atmosphere and these windmills. We have many of them too :-D
awjay
superb my friend...
KateBlack10
Beautiful shot - love the sky
npauling
A beautiful capture with a super light that gives it a wonderful atmosphere. I like any sort of landscape as I think there is always something to see even when it is flat.
RodS
Fantastic shot, Tara! The lighting is awesome, and the scope of this shot is almost beyond understanding unless you've seen the size of these turbines. One blade is an oversize load! I've seen the blades and hubs for these things being hauled through KC. They are huge!
moochagoo
Looks like in Oregon and California. Bravo !