36/365: That Windmill on Highway 40.

Every time I drive to (or from) Chatham, Ontario I go by this little windmill on Highway 40. Every time I’ve thought to myself how I really like the way it’s aged with the vines going up it. Every time I tell myself I need to stop and take a picture next time I am in the area. Today, I left Chatham about an hour before sunset. As I was heading down McNaughton toward Communication Road, my eye was noticing the shadow play on the hydro towers and the non-boring, partly cloudy sky. Fate was telling me that I better stop for that photo – I have a habit of putting photos off to find out next time I’m there someone has taken a bulldozer to the structure. So I pulled off the road and pulled out the tripod for once. This is an HDR image of the windmill. The tricky part was keeping my own shadow out of the photo since the sun was so low. I think the ideal time to get a photo of this is around sunrise in the late spring – when there are leaves on that vine. Perhaps I’ll try that next time I’m in Chatham, as long as the farmer doesn’t take it down first.