Amsterdam is lovely, but this windmill village 20 minutes away stole my heart 💙❄️

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This Windmill Village 20 Minutes From Amsterdam Looks Like It Belongs in a Fairytale Storybook

Zaanse Schans is where time stands still. Just a short trip from Amsterdam, this village features eight working windmills from the 1600s, traditional …

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People by now are probably starting to get sick and tired of it, so let me add to the sickness and fatigue with another northern lights photo. 😜

The composition of this photo isn't great. The lens that I used wasn't wide angle enough to put more of especially the cheese farm on the right on the photo better, and I couldn't quite choose between the windmills and the cheese farm either.

Under normal circumstances, I more than likely would have thrown this photo away. But the northern lights change everything. 😅

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
30 seconds, F/5, ISO 400
19th of January 2026, 22:37 CET

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Right, I'm a bit late to the party, but here's one photo of this little obscure event that happened in the sky over here last Monday... 😉

But seriously, much like the night of the 10th to the 11th of May 2024, and to somewhat of a lesser extent the evening of the 10th of October 2024, the evening of the 19th of January 2026 is one I'm going to remember for a long time. 🙂

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
75 seconds (yes, actually too long for the northern lights, but I'm not too bothered by it 😉 ), F/5, ISO 400
19th of January 2026, 22:19 CET

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@mafalda Nur in den Niederlanden: ein ganzer Ort für den Erhalt von Windmühlen: https://www.dezaanseschans.nl/de/

Man kann sie teilweise besichtigen, besteigen, bewundern und auf einer kurzen Bootstour vom Wasser aus betrachten. Ein Paradies!

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Etwas #Sabotage?

Das Wort Sabotage stammt vom Werfen der #Holzschuhe in die Getriebe der Maschinen, während der Industrialisierung. Da ist industrialisierte Holzschuhproduktion doch irgendwie ironisch? Hier im Bild jedenfalls nicht die eigentliche Produktion, sondern nur eine Vorführung wie das halbautomatisiert vorgeht. Anderes Bild zeigt zum trocknen aufgehängte Schuhe - oder eher zur Deko, den viele sind bereits lackiert, was erst nach dem trocknen gemacht wird.

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New: "The Culture Mill / JULY/2025"

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