Dutch Watermills

in photography •  6 years ago  (edited)

Knowing full well my photos cannot begin to compete with such trending gems as this one, I decided on reposting some older photos today.


Some of the water mills in my region of The Netherlands, as photographed by me.


The Haarmühle near Alstätte (just across the border in Germany, actually, but that is easily fixed by moving some border posts):

Haarmolen1.jpg

Part of its gearbox:

haarmuehle4.jpg


The Oostendorper watermolen near Haaksbergen:

OostendorperWatermolen_bw.jpg

The same one in colour for the B&W-blind:

OostendorperWatermolen.jpg

The Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael made several paintings of this Oostendorper watermolen. Here are two of them, showing what the mill looked like in the seventeenth century:

ruisdael1.jpg

ruisdael2.jpg


A small watermill on an estate called Twickel near Delden:

TwickelWatermolen.jpg


A large one on an estate called Singraven near Denekamp:

WatermolenSingraven.jpg


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I like such old sites. It reminds me at ‘Bokrijk’.

That has an open-air museum, right?

Yes it is located in Belgium.

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Very nice photography, especially the last one...thanks for sharing @ocrdu

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This is really beautiful @ocrdu

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I congratulate on the exelente image wish him a good day.

When I get my own peice of land I have always wanted to build my own hydro wheel and do stuff like this if I have water rights on the land. We have laws here on if we can build something like this or not. You have to be the first one on the water source to build on it or go through a bunch of hoops and get permission from everyone who uses the water source.

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

It would be great to have something like that. The Haarmühle actually has an electric generator installed in it now, but I don't know how much power it delivers.

I love these photographs in black and white @ocrdu. They are stunning.

And in colour the scenes look so peaceful. Nicely captured! 😊

Thank you! It took quite some time to get shots without tourists cluttering the frame.

It was worth the wait I think @ocrdu. They look so serene with no humans hanging around. 😊

I have always been enamored with watermills. I grew up near a grist mill and the sound of the water moving still bring a peace to my soul.

Stunning photography, the black and white are superb. I like the color, but, the other has more depth in my eyes.

I want one. A watermill, I mean. And a big fence to keep tourists at bay.

Oh! I would be a tourist!! But, I want to look at yours! I demand you share!

Never! Well, maybe you could be a guest.

Oh, perfect! I could bring some American wine! You know how good that is. ;)

I've heard it goes well with haggis.

Sheep or calf? I am not a haggis snob. I like both.

Visit is off then. Can't have that 8-).