– 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 – Tropical Storm Hermine Sunset Over the Labor Day weekend what was now Tropical Storm Hermine struck the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast coast. In the Washington, DC area we were fortunate not to suffer the heavy rains and coastal surges which left so much damage along the storm’s path. We did, though have some...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – San Jose de Gracia Church Las Trampas is a small community on State Road 76, commonly known as the High Road, between Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico. The community was founded in 1751 by twelve Spanish families from Santa Fe. The original village consisted of low buildings built around a central plaza. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – White Rock Forge Covered Bridge The White Rock Forge Covered Bridge is located in a peaceful, rural valley in the southeast part of Lancaster County. The bridge spans the west branch of the Octoraro Creek. The bridge has also been called the White Rock Covered Bridge although its official designation is the West...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – John Herr Grist Mill The John Herr Grist Mill in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was built in 1738. It is located on the grounds of the Mill Bridge Village Camp Resort in the town of Ronks. Most of the early settlers to the American colonies were English. William Penn opened Pennsylvania to people from other...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – New Mexico Pumpkin Patch Today is Halloween so I thought I would take a brief break from my usual posting and show an image of a roadside pumpkin stall I found during a trip to Santa Fe a few years ago. All pumpkin stalls are full of wonderful colors and can result in some great images. This New Mexico Pumpkin...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Pohick Church Pohick Church is known as “the Mother Church of Northern Virginia”. It was the first permanent church to be established north of the Occoquan River. Established sometime prior to 1724, it was originally called the Occoquan Church. It soon became known as Pohick Church due to its proximity to Pohick...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Pitts Theatre The Pitts Theatre on South Main Street in Culpeper, Virginia was opened in May 1938 as a vaudeville movie house. The Art Deco building was designed by Nichola Roney of nearby Henrico County. It was part of the Pitt chain of theaters which ultimately consisted of 38 theaters running from southeast to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Civil War Cavalry Horse The Civil War Cavalry Horse is a bronze statue at the National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Virginia. It was sculpted by Tessa Pullan, an English artist specializing in animal sculptures, as a commission from the philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon in 1997. The...
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