– 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 – Tipton-Haynes Historic Site Advertised as “Tennessee’s most historic site”, the Tipton-Haynes Historic Site is located just outside Johnson City in north east Tennessee. The site relays the story of Tennessee’s history from early settlement days through Reconstruction after the Civil War era. An ancient...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bennetts Mill Covered Bridge Bennetts Mill Covered Bridge, which crosses Tygarts Creek several miles south of the creek’s junction with the Ohio River in the north-east corner of Kentucky. It was built in 1854 near the town of South Shore in Greenup County. It is one of 13 covered bridges still standing...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park is a park located just south of London, Kentucky in Laurel County. The park encompasses 896 acres, and includes a section of the Wilderness Road that early settlers used to reach Kentucky. The park is named for Levi Jackson, an early...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Elizabethton Covered Bridge The Elizabethton Covered Bridge is located in downtown Elizabethton, the county seat of Carter county, Tennessee and spans the Doe River. The information below comes from the Tennessee Department of Transport web-site on Tennessee Covered Bridges (Link since taken down but you can...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery is located at the junction of Church and Central Streets in Murphy, North Carolina. It was built in 1869 by Joshua Harshaw, who was a prominent slaveholder in the area. It is in the Greek Revival style and was designed by James Warner Cooper. No longer...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Ebenezer Bridge For the next few weeks, Wednesday will be Covered Bridge Day on my blog. This will not be quite as structured a theme as the Ringling Museum set as I will be bouncing around half-a-dozen different states to bring you some of the varied styles of Covered Bridges. – Click on the image to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Saint Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Chapel Saint Nicholas Chapel, Beaver, Pennsylvania, was built in 1992, when the Greek Catholic Union of the U.S.A., the largest fraternal benefit society serving Byzantine Catholics, observed the centennial anniversary of its founding. For several decades GCU members...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Carmichaels Bridge Carmichaels Bridge is one of the nine covered bridges still remaining in Greene County, Pennsylvania, all of which are still open to vehicular traffic. They are all either painted white or left unpainted. The bridge, like five of the others in Greene County, is a queenpost truss design. It...
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