– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park is a popular and unusually-shaped regional park in Northern Virginia. The park’s primary feature is the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail (abbreviated as W&OD Trail), an asphalt-surfaced...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Gilbert Memorial Methodist Chapel, Zion Hill, Antigua The Historic Gilbert Memorial Methodist Chapel, which is located at Zion Hill, was named in honour of Nathaniel Gilbert who, in 1760, introduced Methodism in Antigua, the first place to receive Methodism outside of England. Gilbert preached to his slaves on...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Skyscraper Reflections The reflections in the windows of skyscrapers can provide some unique images. These two shots are of the windows in the same office tower block in downtown Dallas. The distortions, which in my mind are the key element in these images, are caused by the slight curvature of the glass in...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Santa Fe Colonists from Mexico and Franciscan missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries brought the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe with them to New Mexico. The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the oldest, still-standing shrine built in honor...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Puffy, Grapevine Vintage Railroad In my previous posts about the Grapevine Vintage Railroad (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here), I mentioned that Puffy, their 1896 Cooke Locomotive Works built 4-6-0 was in the shed undergoing major repairs. I have now managed to find out the full story. Puffy has been owned and...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Santa Fe Style Architecture in Black and White The adobe buildings for which the Santa Fe style architecture is so well known have simple clean lines and some very interesting shapes. The contrast between the earth tones of the adobe and the clear blue sky, as well as the texture in the adobe mud itself, call...
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