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            I shot this photo during a recent site visit of the Borssele Offshore Wind Farm 1 and 2. This April the farm established first power to the Dutch high voltage network, which was halfway during the installation of all 94 turbines.
During the visited the CTV (Crew Transfer Vessel) docked on to pilon BG1 by pushing the bow against the transition piece of the wind turbine at full thrust. This gave me the wonderful opportunity to make a picture from a “sea frog” perspective. And the position of the sun was a nice added bonus.

In July 2016 the Dutch minister of economic affairs, mister Henk Kamp, announced that Dong Energy had won tender and the permit for the Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farm. Ørsted (formerly DONG Energy) made the lowest subsidy bid of all 38 bids. The Danish energy company planned to operate the farm for 7,27 eurocent per kWh. This subsidy is valid for a maximum of 15 years, after which the company will only receive the market price.

The wind farms have a joint capacity of 752 megawatts (MW). Peak capacity that is. The plots are located in a shallow sea of a maximum depth of 38 meters. The entire farm covers an area of 138 km2 and the wind blows at an average speed of 9.5 m/s.

Ørsted has realize the farm within four years. In November 2017 they announced that the farm will be equipped with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy 8 MW turbines with a 167-meter rotor. The blades are 83 meters in length. That is the same width as the wing span of an Airbus A380 aircraft.

Technical stuff
This photo was shot at 160ISO, f9.0, -1 2/3, 1/2500 at 15mils using the Sigma 15mm f2.8 EX DG Diag. fisheye lens for Canon. As the turbines has a tip height of “only”  200 meters, this is the only way to fit it all into the frame.
Post-production included meticulously balancing the lighting conditions, due to the sun’s position, with LR. This is not an HDR photo in the sense that I used Aurora HDR or Photomatix. After that I exported the shot to PS and refined and tuned the fish-eye curves. As using the Adaptive Wide Angle tool often resulted into rather harsh effects (I tried it twice for this photo), I opted for the Warp tool. This I used primarily to straighten the horizon, as it is positioned rather low in the frame; resulting in a pretty deeply bent horizon. Finally, I added some copyright signs (in PS, as it is still not possible to position a watermark anywhere you want like in LR – by simply adding text). The copyright signs are, alas, there to stay due to the fact that my photos were frequently copied. So, don't bother commenting on that.

Taken in: Holland / Provincie Zeeland / Westkapelle (show map)

Taken on: November 1, 2020

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