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Photo of the Week 21 – Owenreagh Wind Farm
Filed Under Photography on July 14, 2008 at 7:07 pm
There’s lots of wind farms in Ireland these days but this one hold a very special place in my heart because I played a very small part in getting it built. Now, when I say small I really do mean it. My Dad developed the project in his spare time and I helped him erect the measuring mast on the site and clambered up and down that mountain more times that I care to remember to collect the data from the mast. The wind farm I’m talking about is Owenreagh in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. You can see it very clearly as you travel from Armagh to Strabane along the A5 just after you pass the Ulster American Folk Park.
For those of you interested in such things here are some of the technical details of the original shot:
- Camera: Nikon D40
- Lens: Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)
- Exposure: 1/500 sec
- Focal Length: 50mm
- Focal Ratio: F11
- ISO: 200
- Camera Mode: Auto
- Exposure Compensation: 0.0
[tags]wind turbine, turbine, wind mill, wind farm, Tyrone, Northern Ireland, photography, Ireland[/tags]
Saw some of these when I was in the south of France a few weeks back – first time I’d seen wind turbines up close. They really are enormous structures, though I think the ones I saw must have been at the larger end of the scale. Impressive stuff.
actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.-:.