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Picture of the day -
June 16, 2006
Dad's Windmill Spinning In The Breeze
Some time ago my brother Glen snapped a great photo of our dad's
windmill as it
spun wildly on a snowy winter day. I really liked it so I put it up and wrote a little article
about how dad loved to build and watch whirligigs. I received many wonderful
comments about that picture and I thank Glen for allowing me to use it.
Well, a couple of days ago we were helping
mom trim a hedge in her
yard
when I decided to take a few pictures of dad's windmill of my own. As usual, I had
the camera in "Automatic" mode and the bright sunlight resulted in a
super-fast shutter speed which "stopped the action" and made the windmill look
like it wasn't spinning. Knowing how dad loved to see his whirligigs in action, I
decided to place the camera in manual mode and set it to use a slower shutter
speed in an effort to capture an image that showed the blades spinning.
I started off with a shutter speed of 1/250 of a second and the blades still
looked more or less motionless. I gradually slowed the shutter speed more and more
taking a test picture at each interval, and in each resulting image the windmill's blades
appeared to spin faster than in the previous picture. I finally ended up with a
shutter speed of 1/10 of a second, and as you can see in today's picture the
blades are spinning in all their glory...just like dad would like it!
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