– 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 – The Big Mill from Sapello The largest mill at the living history museum of El Rancho de las Golondrinas was originally built and used by the Pacheco family in Sapello, New Mexico. Its machinery, which was manufactured in Buffalo, New York, was shipped to New Mexico by railroad in the 1880s. The miller ground...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Las Golondrinas Chapel Altar Screen Across the placita, or plaza, from the weaving room at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, which we visited in the last post, is the chapel. The chapel was the settlement’s first building and was probably the first family home. It was used as a meeting room as well as the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Las Golondrinas Weaving Room We now step inside on our tour of El Rancho de las Golondrinas. which we began last week with the brief history of this living museum. Here we visit the weaving room. Spinners and weavers were very important to the settlement. They made most of the clothes the people wore, the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Solid Wooden Wheeled Carretas In the last post began our look at New Mexico’s first living museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the Ranch of the Swallows. The self-guided tour begins at the large wooden doors to the placita, where we find the three farm wagons, or carretas, seen in the last post. This...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – El Rancho de las Golondrinas Lying in the small valley of the Cienega stream some fifteen miles southwest of Santa Fe is El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the Ranch of the Swallows. Evidence of ancient habitation show that man lived in the area long before the Spanish conquistadores came to New Mexico. Their...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Williamsburg Militia Company March on the Governor’s Palace During the night of April 20-21, 1775, British sailors, acting on royal governor Lord Dunmore’s orders, removed the gunpowder of the Williamsburg Militia Company from the Magazine alongside Market Square. The following day the Militia Company...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe M160 Doodlebug In the United States, “Doodlebug” was the common name for a self-propelled rail car. Developed during the early 20th century these rail cars, most of which were powered by gasoline engines and not diesels, enabled railroads to reduce operating costs associated with...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St Georges Cycle Livery One of the popular ways for the cruise ship passengers to tour the town of St Georges on the island of Bermuda is by moped. One place to rent your moped is St Georges Cycle Livery operated by Eve’s Cycles. The mopeds did not interest me as a photographic subject, however the old...
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