Space age; wind turbine blades

Love them or loathe them, wind turbines are a part of our modern landscape. North Lancashire just has a new one…. In one interesting and unusual commercial assignment last week, I was hired to photograph the two day installation of a wind turbine at Back Lane Quarry near Carnforth.

 With perfect weather conditions (grey wind turbine against a grey sky isn’ good!), I bagged some shots for my client that  I was very pleased with (as was my customer).

Interesting shadows under one of the blades.

Apart from getting a crick in my neck after a while and trying totake pictures wearing a hard hat (if you’ve ever tried it you’ll understand!), dust was my main challenge. Changing lenses in the middle of a quarry on a dry breezy day is not good for the camera!

 

 

 

 

The base of the turbine tower is lifted into place.

 

The giant blades are slowly lifted into place.

Almost there, the carefully calculated and impressive operation of attaching the turbine blades is almost complete.

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