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Near-monochrome photograph of a whitewashed Cycladic windmill with bare timber sails standing on a rocky ridge, dry scrub in the foreground under a flat pale sky.

Windmill

Greece · August 2021

1D X Mark II, 105 millimetres, f 4, 1/2000 of a second, ISO 100

The sails are bare. Nothing has been ground here in a long time.

A Cycladic windmill on a bare ridge with its sail frames stripped back to timber spokes. These things ground grain for centuries and are now almost entirely decorative. Desaturated close to monochrome because the only colours present were bleached stone and dry scrub, and neither was helping — what matters is the shape against a blank sky.