{"id":4570,"date":"2019-08-16T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2019-08-17T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T20:52:28","slug":"windmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4570","title":{"rendered":"Windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those who know me know that I don&#8217;t (usually) make photos on assignment. However, when my wife suggests that she needs a photo of  a <s>windmill <\/s> wind turbine for the upcoming Limrik*&#8230; well you know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent part of this afternoon driving the roads of Antrim looking for places to photograph the new <s>windmills<\/s> wind turbines**  along the Tuttle Mountain ridge. I knew that I would not find good views if I was too close since the area is heavily wooded. Thus, I took my long lenses (300 and 600 mm) and searched for spots with an unobstructed, if somewhat distant view. I had some success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave Joan fourteen photos to choose from; five of which are shown here. Hopefully one will be satisfactory!<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scrollGallery id=670 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Antrim Limrick (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/antrimlimrik.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antrim Limrick<\/a> is our quarterly community journal. Joan is the editor. Consequently, I am the staff photographer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transalta.com\/facilities\/plants-operation\/antrim\/\" target=\"_blank\">A nine <s>windmill  <\/s> turbine, 28.8 MW &#8220;wind farm&#8221;<\/a>  on a local mountain ridge is scheduled to begin producing power shortly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know me know that I don&#8217;t (usually) make photos on assignment. However, when my wife suggests that she needs a photo of a windmill wind turbine for the upcoming Limrik*&#8230; well you know! I spent part of this afternoon driving the roads of Antrim looking for places to photograph the new windmills wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapes-2","tag-windmills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}