– 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 – The Blacksmith Shop On the way to the Grapevine Vintage Railroad we were invited into a blacksmith shop which was alongside the station in Grapevine, TX. Although the forge had not been fired up that day, the shop proved to be a wonderland for the photographer. Here we see the forge and the spectacular sign...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – DC Transit Company PCC Streetcar Today we return to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia. This post looks at the DC Transit Company PCC Streetcar. This particular example was built in 1945 by the St. Louis Car Company. It was one of 485 operated by the Capital Transit Company between 1937 and...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – McNeel Mill The McNeel Mill is located in Mill Point, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was built between 1860 and 1868 by Isaac McNeel. Although currently inoperable, the mill stands today in almost perfect condition. It is owned by Lanty McNeel, whose great-grandfather, Isaac McNeel originally purchased the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Scotchtown Scotchtown is a colonial era plantation house in Hanover County, Virginia. The property was part of a large land grant given to Charles Chiswell in 1717. Chiswell built the first house on the site in 1720. The building was expanded around 1760 to its present size. The house is not only architecturally...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – New Kent School A short distance from New Kent County Courthouse in Virginia is New Kent School. This small building was constructed in 1930. It served as a combined elementary and high school. However, this small Georgian Revival structure, along with its neighbor, the George W. Watkins School, played an...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – New Kent Ordinary In another post where we visited New Kent County Courthouse we saw in the quote from Martin’s Gazetteer from 1835 how the taverns and mercantile stores which had sprung up around the courthouse equaled the dwellings in the village. An ordinary or tavern was always located near the county...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – New Kent County Courthouse The county courthouses we have visited other posts such as Hanover County, Essex County or Prince William County have been some of the oldest in the state of Virginia. Today we visit one of the oldest counties in the state. The courthouse, however, is much more recent. New Kent County...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – West Hospital Door Grill West Hospital is part of the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical Center campus in downtown Richmond. Noted for its art deco architecture, the building was commissioned by the Public Works Administration as one of the large-scale public works projects of President Roosevelt’s New...
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