Submitter's name:	Don Shedrick
Title:	Copenhagen Harbor Wind Turbines
Gear used:	OM-1 + 75-150mm f4 Zuiko Zoom.
Diaphragm:	not recorded
Shutter speed:	not recorded
Film used:	Kodachrome 64
Technical information:	I used the camera's averaging meter and exposed to achieve a backlighted effect on the wind turbines in the foreground.  One shot, no bracketing.
Subject information:	Denmark is the worlds largest producer of wind turbines, and they generate a significant percentage of their electrical energy from the wind.  You see large arrays of them a short distance off shore, and small clusters throughout the countryside.  These were in Copenhagen harbor, shot from our cruise ship as we arrived early on a September morning.
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Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

busy air corridor :) since there is nothing to give scale to the turbines, can iask how large are they?

Comment left by: Don Shedrick (shedridc@yahoo.com)

Actually, the full size scan shows that the dark objects in the water in front of the turbines are boats of about 30 - 40 ft length, and the dark objects on the right side are small houses, so the turbines are quite large. Some typical statistics I saw are: Hub height: 64 m Rotor diameter: 76 m Rotational speed 17/11 RPM Output 1000kW - 2500kW Distance between neighbouring turbines: 183 m More interesting info at: http://www.windpower.org/en/core.htm

Comment left by: iwert (no e-mail specified)

Very nice. good colour! but I have the imnpression that a rotor diameter of 76m is a bit overstated. (like Danes like to do:)

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

note hub height 64m, rotor diam. 76m. they must have some very good engineers :)

Comment left by: Ken N (no e-mail specified)

76M Radius would be tricky with a 64M hub height. 76M Diameter is quite doable, though. We have oodles of these in Iowa. Impressive sights. Fun to shoot with 4x5 too. Nice picture, but is that vignetting I see?

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

DOH now i feel silly for mixing up diameter and radius. lots of those down the road on the way to palm springs, nice sights, too fenced off to make for decent photos :( didnt know the midwest did wind farms, thought that was mostly a north europe thing with palm springs being attributed to wacky california :)

Comment left by: Don Shedrick (shedridc@yahoo.com)

No vignetting. The dark in the corners is the rounded corners of the cardboard mount present in all Kodachromes done by Kodak Qualex. To eliminate it in the scan you have to crop out alot the picture, so I often leave in a bit of it in the scan. It does not bother me, as I am used to it. Qualex does Ektachromes with square corners, but for some reason they still do Kodachromes with rounded corners.

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