– 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 – Yellow Barn Most of the barns I have seen are either red or left unpainted. There are also quite a few white ones. I have also seen a group painted green. This, though, is the first one that I have ever seen in this unusual color. This yellow barn with its random stone wall for the first floor and white trim was...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Thin Blue Line The Thin Blue Line is a sculpture of a police officer’s head in downtown Richmond, VA. This 12-foot tall woven stainless steel piece of art is on the wall of the Richmond Police Department Headquarters. It was created by Michael Stutz. It livens up what can only be described as a very utilitarian...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Fly-in to Victory Ground Crew In an earlier post we looked at the Reflections of the Fly-in to Victory Day at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Not only were there the warbirds for everyone to admire but there were also a group of reenactors...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – EMD GP-9 Today we return to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore to take a look at the GP-9 diesel-electric locomotive. General Motor’s Electro-Motive Division (EMD) released the GP-9 in January 1954 as an upgrade to the highly successful GP-7. A total of 4,112 EMD GP-9 units were manufactured. US production...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Hanover Tavern The Hanover Tavern is part of the Hanover Courthouse National District. The early story of the tavern is closely linked to the Hanover County Courthouse which lies on the opposite side of U.S. Route 301. A license was first granted for a tavern at the site in 1733, two years before the start of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 Locomotive A few months ago we took a look at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad in Cumberland, Maryland. In particular that post showed the railroad’s 1916 built Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 steam locomotive. At the time I was there, No 734 had just been brought into the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Hanover County Courthouse History – Part 2 We have so far looked at the influences of the architecture in Williamsburg on the design of Hanover County Courthouse as well the most famous case to be heard there. What was known as the Parson’s Case cemented Hanover County Courthouse’s place in...
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Hanover County Courthouse History – Part 1 In the last post we visited Hanover County Courthouse and looked at how its design was influenced by the decision of the Virginia General Assembly to move the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg. Today and in the next post we will see how this small brick structure has played a role in some of the key moments of...
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