The photographer had to make the effort to journey to the cold and bleak landscape to capture their wind turbine subject. Including the snow paraboarder is novel. I appreciate the positions of the distinctive elements: the figure, the two chutes and the turbine blades. This creates a strong line for the eye to follow. The monochrome tones reinforce the desolate nature of this wintry place. Notice also how the background clouds look like mountains.
Having the opportunity to climb to the top of a wind turbine would be thrilling. Its great that you went to the further effort to climb out to capture this photograph. It is a particularly unique viewpoint and combines both a landscape perspective with a detailed, graphic view of the blades. Excellent.
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked between 1 and 250 in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** These beacons of hope are also rather majestic constructions, and if you want to flex your compositional muscles then you can do worse than spending some time around wind turbines and finding out how many different ways you can frame them - from abstract compositions against a backdrop of sky, to balanced landscapes that incorporate these towering modern additions.
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Another beautiful altered landscape photograph. Contrasting tones in the landscape hills upon which sit enormous turbine towers. Their positioning within the frame and to each other is perfect. The sky is colourful but not overtly so, the soft hues offset the sharpness of the turbines. In bottom righthand corner the distant hills provide the eye further information to ponder.
A lovely, clean classic composition: a band of yellow sand, a stripe of sea and rocks, and the blue of the sky, offset by the vertical shafts of turbine towers. It is calm, tranquil balanced. The walker and dog provide a sense of scale, but also of normality; the majestic turbines now a common sight on one’s morning stroll.
