– 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 – Franklin County Courthouse The county seat of Franklin County, Virginia is Rocky Mount. Here you will find the impressive, 1910-built, white Franklin County Courthouse. The courts that were held in this building were probably responsible for locking up more bootleggers than any other building in the country....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Booker T Washington National Monument Located just over 20 miles south-east of Roanoke in Hardy, Virginia, the Booker T Washington National Monument recalls the early childhood of the man who was to become one of the most influential African-American men of his time. The park that is the National Monument...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Introduction of the Model T Ford It was exactly 105 years ago today on October 2, 1908 that Henry Ford changed the automobile forever with the introduction of the Model T Ford. Before the Model T, cars were a luxury item: At the beginning of 1908, there were fewer than 200,000 on the road. Though the Model T...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Norfolk & Western Class A #1218 gets a new coat of paint On July 12-14, 2013 the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke held special day/night sessions when their two iconic steam engines were taken out of their normal protective display area and staged for the benefit of photographers. Here we see...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – H&C Coffee Sign Just a few yards down Campbell Avenue from the City Market Building in downtown Roanoke is one of the stand-out features of the local skyline. Originating from 1946 after one of the founders of H&C Coffee Company, Harold Wood (the C being his brother Clarence), took a trip to New York...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Roanoke City Market Building The Roanoke City Market is the oldest continuously operating open-air market in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It began in 1882, when licenses were issued to 25 area vendors. The market area has a wide selection of locally grown plants, fresh fruits, and vegetables. The market area’s...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The View from Fort James, St. John’s Harbour, Antigua In the last post we learned the history of Fort James which is one of the two forts guarding the entrance to St. John’s Harbour, Antigua. Located in the white building at the end of the point on which the fort sits, which I believe was the Captain of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Fort James, St. John’s Harbour, Antigua After visiting a civil war era fort just outside Savannah, Georgia in the last post we move south into the Caribbean and back in history a hundred years or so to a fort built in the first decade of the 18th century. Fort James is one of the two forts which guard the...
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