– 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 – Old Fort Jackson Fort James Jackson (usually shortened to Fort Jackson or Old Fort Jackson) is a restored 19th century fort located one mile east of Savannah on the Savannah River. The fort is the oldest standing in Georgia. Used extensively during the War of 1812 and the Civil War, it was the home port for the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Horse Head Hitching Post Whenever visiting a new city I love to just wander the streets looking for interesting details, such as this horse head shaped hitching post. This one, though, was not found whilst actually walking the streets. We had been touring the historic district of Savannah all day capturing the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – John Blair Kitchen The John Blair House and Kitchen (these images are of the kitchen building) are on the North side of Duke of Gloucester Street, the main thoroughfare of Colonial Williamsburg. The house, kitchen and wonderfully colorful garden were originally the home to a prominent family of Virginians. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Relics outside Casa Grande Trading Post, Los Cerrillos For this post we are returning to the Casa Grande Trading Post in Los Cerrillos. As I showed you in the first post, along the walls of the store was an amazing array of rusty mining relics and farm implements from the bygone days of Cerrillos. Rust, dust and...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – So far on our tour through the Ghost Town of Cerrillos, as Los Cerrillos is known to its current inhabitants, we have visited The Delallo-Simoni Building, the What Not Shop, the Barardinelli House, and the Casa Grande Trading Post. One of the most prominent buildings in the town is St. Joseph’s Church. ...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The Casa Grande Trading Post is, quite often, a visitor’s first stop when arriving in Los Cerrillos. As noted in the first post about the ghost town when we learned about the history of the town and took a look at The Delallo-Simoni Building, over 200 people still call Cerrillos their home. Two of these...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Berardinelli House, Los Cerrillos In the first two posts of our tour of the Ghost Town of Los Cerrillios, New Mexico we visited the Delallo-Simoni Building and the What Not Shop, both on First Street. At the other end of First Street is the Barardinelli House. This double adobe building, built in 1886, originally...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – In the last post we learned about some of the history of the Los Cerrillos Ghost Town and took our first look at some of the buildings which remain there. Los Cerrillos is located about 30 miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico on State Highway 14, the scenic road from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. This highway is also...
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