Spend the weekend fixing my bicycle and took it for a test spin this late afternoon. Not the best of conditions to take photos, sun still shining rather harshly and the scene isn’t all that special, but I wouldn’t want to rob you of this “typical” Dutch scene I came across 
Thank you for the play.
Just an edit. Rawtherapee neutral, GIMP, G’MIC
I used a lot of filters made by garagecoder and curves:
typical.dutch.scene.rw2.pp3 (12.0 KB)
That looks interesting. In a good way!
If you don’t mind me asking: How was this done?
I thought I recognized one of the pencil, canvas or paper styles from G’MIC but I’m not at all sure if that is correct. Then again, it might be a nice ImageMagick script…
Hi Jade. You are (almost) spot-on. I first took the raw file through LuminanceHDR to create a very contrasty version with loads of darkish sky and then ran the result through GMIC’s sketch filter. I exaggerated the contrast and saturation a bit to allow the strokes to come out more prominently.
Where is this mill? Looks like an interesting place and different way of building than here in the north-western part of the country where I live (Boven het Noordzee kanaal).
This is De Schaapweimolen. Not entirely sure if this is still municipality Rijswijk or already Wateringen.
Here’s the one I grew up next to:
Piet’s Mill in Alkmaar by Mike Bing, on Flickr
I love these old windmills. Interesting to see how blue everyone made the sky. Here’s my take.
