The Most Beautiful Morning at Windmill Island, Holland, MI
by Liesl Walsh
Title
The Most Beautiful Morning at Windmill Island, Holland, MI
Artist
Liesl Walsh
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
There is an interesting story behind this windmill. It's named De Zwaan, which in Dutch means "The Swan" or "Graceful Bird". It was first built in Krommenie, the Netherlands, in 1761 and later moved to Vinkel, the Netherlands. In the United States, there is a town with many Dutch immigrants from the late 1800's. It's Holland, Michigan. Each spring Holland, Michigan hosts the very popular Tulip Time festival. Two residents of the town, Willand Wichers and Carter Brown, wanted to bring a Dutch windmill to Holland to pay homage to the city's Dutch heritage. But many windmills in the Netherlands were damaged in World War II, and the Dutch government put a ban on selling them outside of the Netherlands. But Wichers and Brown were able to get around that by purchasing a very heaviliy damaged windmill, the De Zwaan, which had an uncertain future. So the Dutch government sold it to Wichers for $2800, and it was the last windmill to leave the Netherlands. So in October 1964 the De Zwaan was transported by the Prins Willem van Oranje ship to the harbor of Muskegon, and then by truck to Windmill Island in Holland. It took around 6 months to reconstruct the mill, and in April 1965 it was dedicated. Windmill Island sits on 36 acres of reclaimed swampland on the eastern end of Lake Macatawa. De Zwaan is 125 feet tall and its blades are 80 feet long. It is still in use today. De Zwaan windmill is one of the prominent landmarks of Holland along with the Big Red Lighthouse which sits at the opposite end of Lake Macatawa at Lake Michigan. This photo is an HDR. A horse stands in the left corner looking towards the windmill. There were a lot of horses behind the fence that morning. It was an incredible moment!
Featured in the following FAA Groups:
Digital Paintography 2-2-2020
World Art Spotlight 2-2-2020
Moves in the Wind 2-2-2020
Just Perfect 2-3-2020
Your Story of Art 2-3-2020
Orange Yellow Red Photography and Paints 2-4-2020
World Landscape Lovers of Art 2-6-2020
Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery Spotlight Artist of the Week 2-5-2020
International Images 2-7-2020
Artistic Photography 2-8-2020
Art Forever With You 4-24-2020
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February 2nd, 2020
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Comments (21)
Gary F Richards
Spectacular cloud composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! F/L voted for this piece in the contest CLOUDSCAPE!
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2020 April: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (April 24, 2020)
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
Wow the composition of this image is super wonderful Liesl!! beautiful landscape and a charming historic windmill set a marvelous scene for this capture. the glowing light and the heavenly display in the sky empowered the beauty of this superb work!! love it!! Sharing!! L/F/FB
Dawn Currie
Congratulations! Your exceptional photographic artwork has been featured in our group, Artistic Photography! You are invited to archive it in the 2020 Artistic Photography Thanks and Features Archive discussion thread for more visibility.
Toni Hopper
Congratulations on your showcase in the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group! Great image!
Hanne Lore Koehler
Magnificent capture of this spectacular sunrise, Liesl! Congratulations on your Wisconsin Flowers And Scenery SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTED ARTIST feature! L/F
Donna Kennedy
Beautiful image Liesl, Congratulations on your Highlight Artist Feature of the Week in WFS!!...L/T
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS LIESL...FOR YOUR “Special Highlight Artist” distinction FEATURE!....so well deserved!...BRAVA LF
Randy Rosenberger
Congratulations for being one of our present SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTED ARTISTS, as you are very deserving of this special honor. Check it out on top of the Homepage of our site. It surely is a true honor to FEATURE THIS BEAUTY ON OUR HOMEPAGE! Your talents and love for art are surely dominant in this beautiful piece of outstanding art work! Thanks so very much for sharing, so we may enjoy and adore the beauty within! LIKED AND FAVED Randy B. Rosenberger (admin of WFS group) http://fineartamerica.com/groups/wisconsin-flowers-and-scenery.html
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