– 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 – Workhouse Arts Center The Workhouse Arts Center is in Lorton, Virginia. It is housed in the buildings of the former Occoquan Workhouse portion of the Lorton Reformatory, part of the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections. The history of the Workhouse began a little over 100 years ago. At the instigation...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Marshall Virginia Anglican Church The Marshall Virginia Anglican Church of St. John The Baptist is housed in the oldest church still in use in the town. It was built in 1849 by local builder William Sutton. Then known as Trinity Episcopal Church, it was part of the Piedmont Parish of the Episcopal Church. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Gillioz Theatre The Gillioz Theatre in Springfield, Missouri opened in October 1926. M.E. Gillioz had secured a 100-year lease on a single 16-foot wide plot bordering U.S. Route 66. His idea was for the theater to become one of the attractions for the travelers on the historic highway. Gillioz’s main business was...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Jefferson County Courthouse The first Jefferson County Courthouse was built in 1803 on a plot of land donated by George Washington in Charles Town in what at the time was the state of Virginia. The original building was replaced in 1836 by a much larger structure which forms the core of the current courthouse. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Historic Blenheim Historic Blenheim is a Greek Revival style brick farm house built in 1859 on land originally owned Captain Rezin Samuel Willcoxon. In the early nineteenth century Willcoxon began to accumulate land in what is present day Fairfax City, Virginia. At one point he owned over 1,000 acres of land in...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – School House #18 For a while following the end of the Civil War, Virginia was under military rule under the command of John Schofield. Schofield called for a constitutional convention to meet in Richmond between December 1867 and April 1868. The resulting new constitution came into effect in 1870. One of the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – CB Rouss We complete this brief visit to Winchester, Virginia with a look at another of the city’s benefactors. In the last post we saw how John Handley had left money for the education of the poor. Today, being February 11, we join the whole City of Winchester in celebrating CB Rouss Day. To quote the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Handley Library Today we continue our visit to Winchester, Virginia. In the last post we looked at the renovated Taylor Hotel on the pedestrian mall of Loudoun Street. A short walk away is the Handley Library. The library is named for its benefactor, John Handley. John Handley was born in County Wexford, Ireland...
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