The countryside is dotted with examples of early technology in the form of wind and water-powered mills. Both types of mill used the power of nature to crank machinery that ground flour, pumped water or, in modern times, to generate electricity. Well, don’t concern yourself with the bird-battering eyesores of today, what we want to photograph are the mills of yesteryear. For windmills that means photographing them as part of the landscape, rather than just a close-up shot. It’s better to show them in the context of the local environment. You can also get inside some windmills, especially ones that still work, to photograph the various floors and machinery at work. On windy days it can be interesting to take a long exposure shot to blur the movement of the clouds and the sails going round.
