Reigate Heath Windmill

Reigate Heath Windmill | 9 Mar 2007 | Buildings + Structures, Scenic | , | Trackback

  • : FinePix Z1
  • | Exposure: 0.003 s (10/3200) (1/320)
  • | Aperture: f/5.6
  • | ISO speed: 64
  • | Flash: No
  • | Focal length: 18.30 (1830/100)
The post windmill on Reigate Heath was built circa 1765 and it was in use as a working mill for the next one hundred years. In 1880 the roundhouse (of the then disused mill) was converted into a Chapel of Ease to St Mary's Parish Church and it is thought to be the only windmill in the world to have been consecrated as a place of worship.

I shot this last year with the Finepix Z1, which is basically a 'point & click' compact. The original was a tad jagged and I was going to delete it today but, as I rather liked the composition, I thought I'd try and soften it up with a painterly feel in Photoshop instead.

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  1. Nice. This looks like a place I want to visit some day.
    Cheers, Jeroen

    Comment by Jeroen — 3 June, 2007 #

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