– 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 – Taylor Hotel In the next couple of posts we are going to visit Winchester, Virginia. What better place could there be to start than a beautifully restored historic downtown hotel. The Taylor Hotel was built in 1847 on the Valley Pike, now called Loudoun Street, one of the main thoroughfares of the city. It was...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Savage Mill Savage Mill is a historic cotton mill complex on the banks of the Little Patuxent River in Howard County, Maryland. The current buildings date from between 1822 and 1916 although there had been a mill on this site as early as 1810. The earliest mill was started by four brothers: Nathaniel F. Williams,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Barbados Museum The Barbados Museum and Historical Society is housed in historic buildings which were originally used as the military prison at St. Ann’s Garrison. St. Ann’s Garrison, or “The Garrison” as it is more popularly known, was built to house the British West Indies Regiment. Barbados...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Martinsburg Roundhouse The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad first arrived in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1842. By the end of the decade the first engine and machine shops had been built in the town. These early engineering facilities, though, did not last long. During the Civil War, railroads played an important...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Essex County Courthouse Tappahannock is the county seat of Essex County on the Middle Peninsula between the James and Rappahannock Rivers in Virginia. This was one of the first areas in Virginia to be occupied by the colonists. Originally part of Old Rappahannock County, Essex County was formed in 1692....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – US Soldiers Home The US Soldiers Home in Washington D.C. was established in 1851, as an “asylum for old and disabled veterans”. Situated on high ground north of the U.S. Capitol building, what is now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home has been in continuous use since its founding. Congress finally approved...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Rockbridge Missouri In the last post we visited Rockbridge Grist Mill in Ozark County Missouri. The mill was the hub around which the bustling village of Rockbridge grew. As the business of the mill grew, first a general store and then a bank moved into the village. The general store also housed the post office....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Rockbridge Grist Mill Deep in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri runs a clear water spring fed stream appropriately called Spring Creek. In 1868, one of the early explorers to the area, B.V. Morris, built a dam across the creek in order to power a grist mill. From this simple beginning grew the village of...
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