– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Delaplane Delaplane is a small rural community in Fauquier County, Virginia. The village came into being after the building of the Manassas Gap Railroad in 1852. Construction of the railroad began the previous year at the junction of the existing Orange and Alexandria Railroad at what became known as Manassas Junction. The railroad headed west towards Front Royal, through the Manassas Gap in the...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Erosion as Art I have been reading Rick Sammon’s book “Creative Visualization for Photographers”. This book is not a technique guide in the standard form. It is designed to help the photographer produce better images through ideas that may lead to better vision. Basically, the aim is to give you a better eye for an image and then post-processing it to elevate the result from a snapshot to a great...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Railroad Baggage Carts A couple of weeks ago we revisited the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad in Cumberland, Maryland. Whilst I was waiting for the steam locomotive to arrive I wandered around the historic depot. No matter the main attraction that takes you to something like a tourist train station, it is always worth taking some time to slowly explore the surroundings. As I was walking along...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Model A Ford 4-Door Convertible In the last post we took a look at creating a reasonable facsimile of the historic era represented by the preserved Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 Locomotive. In that particular image patience was required to achieve the desired result. Today we see the how pure luck can also play a key role in finding and creating a great image...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Isaiah Davenport House The Isaiah Davenport House is a historic house in Savannah, Georgia. It is located on the northwest corner of Columbia Square, one of six additional squares added to the original Oglethorpe Plan in the late 1790s. This federal-style home was built in 1820 by Isaiah Davenport for his growing household as well as a means of showing his considerable building skills. Details of...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Santa Cruz de la Canada Unlike many of the settlements in the area, Santa Cruz was never a pueblo. It was first established as a settlement by the Spanish around 1598. The settlement lasted until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 when the Spanish were driven from the area. Many of the survivors moved to El Paso,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Chattel House A Chattel House is a moveable wooden house that quite literally could be picked up and moved from one site to another. It is a Barbadian term that dates back to the plantation days. The term “chattel” means moveable property so the name could not be more appropriate. Although the term originated...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Street Photography China Part 2 Today we continue our quick posts of some of the Street Photography images I captured whilst walking the streets in China. In the last post we looked at a couple of portraits. Today the focus is on the most used means of delivery – the tricycle. When these images were...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Street Photography China Part 1 This week’s posts will be short and sweet as we have guests in town. I have been experimenting with some old transparencies using Lightroom and some plug-ins to create images that better reflected what I remember when I first captured the scene. Today we have two portraits...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bevier House Bevier House in Marbleton, New York dates back to before the birth of the nation. It was owned continuously by one family for almost 225 years. It is now the home of the Ulster County Historical Society. The original part of the building, which is currently the kitchen, dates back to around...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Historic Grayson County Courthouse The Historic Grayson County Courthouse in Independence, Virginia was built in 1908. It replaced the previous structure built in 1863 when the county seat was moved west from Old Town to Independence. The location, and name of the town, came about when the original, much larger...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Norfolk Western SD-45 Number 1776 The SD-45 is a diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between December 1965 and the end of 1971. In all, 1,260 were built for American railroads before being replaced by its upgrade, the SD45-2. A few remain in service but they are...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Tayloe House The Tayloe House, or Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House to give it its full name, is a Federal-style mansion house on the north east corner of Lafayette Square close to the White House in Washington, DC. The house was built in 1828 by Benjamin Ogle Tayloe at the request of his wife who wanted to move from...
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