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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: Øivind Tøien on October 21, 2019, 06:59:04

Title: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Øivind Tøien on October 21, 2019, 06:59:04

Some windmills already in place in existing park above Stokmarknes Sortland, Northern Norway:

#1
(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3654980029.jpg)


Rotor blades on their way to location in Northern Norway, here outside Lødingen:
#2
(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3654980134.jpg)


#3
(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3654980166.jpg)


#4
(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3654980126.jpg)


Stems on ship outside Tromsø:
#5
(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3663134977.jpg)

(From current location of this ship, it looks like final destination is Kvaløya outside Tromsø.)

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Fons Baerken on October 21, 2019, 07:13:11

Nice series, thanks for showing.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: John Geerts on October 21, 2019, 07:53:50

A huge operation.  Greatly documented.   Impressive light on the 1st one.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Luc on October 21, 2019, 08:38:00

Impressive. Well documented!

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Øivind Tøien on October 21, 2019, 10:06:51

Thanks Fons, John and Luc.
Yes, the dimensions of these things are really huge. Unfortunately that also calls for large transport roads  to be made in nature for the land part of the transport, a contributing cause of controversy.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Akira on October 21, 2019, 10:52:08

This is indeed an excellent representation of the scale of the project.

I also like some sort of surreal combination of the grandiose nature and the unusually big artificial object.

Thank you for sharing!

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Thomas Stellwag on October 21, 2019, 11:14:19

quite different to our long trucks with one wing each during nights on the highways
am I right, that due to kow humidity you have no real ice problems on the rotors?

great series - thanks for sharing

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Erik Lund on October 21, 2019, 12:35:57

Very nice images! Really nice pp ;)

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Øivind Tøien on October 21, 2019, 20:00:23

Thanks for the comments, Akira, Thomas and Erik.

This is coastal Northern Norway so humidity can be quite high. But it is usually not that cold, and there will typically be lots of freeze-thaw cycles with passing weather fronts though the winter.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: rosko on October 21, 2019, 20:54:47

Very interesting !

So far, I saw only lorries carrying windmill parts.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Bear Dale on October 22, 2019, 00:03:17

Nice series, seeing those blades on the ship really shows just how massive they really are.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: armando_m on October 22, 2019, 01:10:08

Fantastic images, surprising to realize the scale of the mills, as I have only seen them from - now I realize - very far away

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Øivind Tøien on October 22, 2019, 08:03:50

Thanks for the kind words, Francis, Bear and Armando.
Yes, the  windmills did not look that big when viewed above the buildings at Stokmarknes Sortland. It is only when comparing them to the cell tower at the left in image #1 (captured with the 300mm f/4 PF) that the huge dimensions are realized.

(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3665384311.jpg)
105mm f/2.5 AIS at f/8 on D500

BTW, image #2, 3 and 4 were drive-by captures through the window of a bus with the 55mm f/3.5 micro.

Edit: I initially had a little brain fart regarding location of the windmill park. It has now been corrected.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Erik Lund on November 09, 2020, 11:34:43

Levitating windmills  :o

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Bent Hjarbo on November 09, 2020, 13:56:25

Erik, Erik, Erik   ;D

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Thomas Stellwag on November 09, 2020, 14:00:36

Quote from: Erik Lund on November 09, 2020, 11:34:43

Levitating windmills  :o

this is a good one

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Erik Lund on November 09, 2020, 14:34:09

Thx, ;) It was a beautiful morning on the island of Lolland

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: Øivind Tøien on November 10, 2020, 08:28:50

Very nice, both of them, Erik!

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: MFloyd on November 10, 2020, 08:43:21

Great pictures of both of you. A big like for the “phantomatic” ones of Erik.

Though not a fan in everyday life of these installations which very often spoil the environment, have more than uncertain economic returns, and are very noisy, when you are close, as I experienced during a couple of days when I was moored at the immediate vicinity of a windmill park when I was in the navy. Just my one cent, no intent to start a controversy  ;)

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: pluton on November 11, 2020, 01:21:29

 Eric has captured nature's improvement of windmill aesthetics.

Title: Re: How do those windmills get there?
Post by: John Geerts on November 11, 2020, 07:33:17

Great shots of those 'flying'  windmills, especially the first one.