Kinderdijk features nearly 20 windmills, built around 1740 to drain water from reclaimed land below sea level and pump it into nearby rivers and canals. It is the largest concentration of windmills in the world. I built this image around the relationship between the whimsical sculpture of a goat mounted on a hay bale near Kinderdijk’s entrance, and several of the windmills deep within the complex. Standing a good distance away from the goat, I used a long telephoto focal length of 319mm to get both the goat and the windmills into focus, yet also pulled them much closer together within my frame than they actually appeared to be in reality. The expanse of water between them also becomes narrower, and the long lens cuts through the mist to define the detail on the sails of the windmills. The reclaimed land itself is a verdant mass of green, which I emphasize by stressing the color of the grasses in the foreground and repeating them in the middle ground as well. The backlight abstracts both the goat and windmills, creating a timeless image of this place, which was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 1997.