– 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 – Roundhouse Roof A few weeks ago I visited the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. The first part of the collection you see is housed in the restored roundhouse that was part of the historic Mount Clare Shops. Mount Clare is considered to be the birthplace of Railroading in America as it was from here that...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Coffman Wagon One of the exhibits on the grounds of the North House Museum in Lewisburg, West Virginia is the Coffman Wagon exhibit. This is a permanent display built in 1992 when the Greenbrier Historical Society became the owner of the property. The wagon first arrived in West Virginia’s Greenbrier...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – North House The North House in Lewisburg, West Virginia, was built in 1820 by John A. North. At the time Lewisburg and the surrounding Greenbrier Valley was rapidly expanding due to it becoming a gateway to the new western frontier territories of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The court system for the area also...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Barn Quilt Whilst driving through the West Virginia countryside I came upon this White Dutch style barn with a beautiful quilt decoration on it. Barn quilts are painted quilt squares. They are usually fashioned on boards and then mounted on a barn or other building. While cloth quilts are made up of a series...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Old Stone Presbyterian Church The first permanent settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains was establish in 1769. There had been earlier attempts at settling the area but all were destroyed by the Native Inhabitants. Being that most of these early settlers were from Virginia and, according to Dr. John...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Adobe Architectural Details Whilst going through my images to produce the recent posts on Santa Cruz and Espanola, New Mexico I realized that I had a great many shots of the varied architectural details of both Pueblo and Pueblo Revival architecture which have never been seen on my website. Today I thought I...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Plaza de Espanola Twenty miles north of Santa Fe on Hwy. 285, Espanola has for a century been the heart of New Mexico’s northern mountain and pueblo communities. The current town of Espanola was founded in the 1880s as a stop on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Legend has it that a Spanish woman sold...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Whitall House Back in February I wrote about the West Jersey Artillery, a group of Continental Army re-enactors, who were helping film an episode of the cooking show A Taste of History on PBS with Chef Walter Staib. The crew were all set up below Whitall House in Red Bank Battlefield Park. Today we take a...
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