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Mill around with your camera
Wendy Evans explains how to capture windmills and watermills
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Aim to place the windmill on one of the vertical thirds in a horizontal composition, facing into the rest of the scene and the light.
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, is used to generate electricity. We needn’t concern ourselves with the bird-battering eyesores of today; what we want to photograph are the mills of yesteryear.