Espjerg Harbour, Denmark.

[Trent Watts]

On my way to Fanø Island for my bird watching tour we had to cross a ferry in Espjerg harbour. This is a major assembly point for exporting Danish electric generating windmills. Some of the ships are being reconditioned from use as off shore oil drilling rigs to setting up off shore windmill farms. The scale of the blades was remarkable when you are up close. When you see them turning out in a field they look big but I had no idea how big they were.

Windmill tower sections.

Two blades packaged for shipping. My friend drove his car under for some perspective.

The weather had been threatening rain and just as the ferry was leaving I walked out to the deck and saw a beautiful double rainbow. The ferry was underway and within 30 -40 seconds the rainbow and the boat had shifted. I had my iPhone 15 so was able to snap a couple of shots before the whole thing disappeared. I guess it proves the best camera is the one you have with you.
C&C welcome.

A few seconds later.

 

[AlanLichty]

Neat shots. I love the rainbows although the double 'bow is tilted a bit to the left.

Ships bring windmill parts into the Port of Vancouver and then they load the pieces onto trucks to be taken out to eastern Washington and Oregon. The windmill blades look ridiculous when the trucks are taking them from the port to the freeways. They use a 2 part rig to move the blades with a driver at each end and traffic control cars both behind and in front of the trucks since they need the whole two lane wide roadway. Making turns requires them to block off the whole intersection while they maneuver them to make the turns. The tower sections are an oversize load on the roadways but as unwieldy as the blades.

 

[Trent Watts]

Thanks Alan.. I tired a few different angles when cropping and couldn't get what looked perfect on the rainbow. I'm not sure if it has something to do with the wide angle lens on the phone and also the mist/rainbow was present even over the water on the right side or just my inadequate technical skills! I tried to straighten the rigging on the ship in Photoshop and darken the sky to look more like it did from the ferry. Here is the unaltered version of the image from the iPhone. Of course I probably had the phone on an angle as well. I appreciate your comments Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

My favorite reference point is to look at the waterline if there is water in the scene. It's very easy to get lost with the horizon when shooting with an iPhone and I end up off kilter all the time with mine. The wide angle lenses on the iPhones have a lot of barrel effect distortion at the sides which makes using smokestacks at the sides not very usable for leveling.

In this case you have some nice towers right in the middle of the scene that are perfect for using the ruler tool in Photoshop. In shot #3 above that shows a need to rotate the image 0.36º clockwise to correct. I used one of the upright edges of the centermost red and white crane tower for the ruler tool.

 

[JimFox]

Love the windmill photos, and totally love the rainbow ones.

 

[Trent Watts]

My favorite reference point is to look at the waterline if there is water in the scene. It's very easy to get lost with the horizon when shooting with an iPhone and I end up off kilter all the time with mine. The wide angle lenses on the iPhones have a lot of barrel effect distortion at the sides which makes using smokestacks at the sides not very usable for leveling.

In this case you have some nice towers right in the middle of the scene that are perfect for using the ruler tool in Photoshop. In shot #3 above that shows a need to rotate the image 0.36º clockwise to correct. I used one of the upright edges of the centermost red and white crane tower for the ruler tool.

Thanks Alan.. I need another PS lesson I see....Will check into that.