– 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 – St Peters Church Bermuda St Peters Church Bermuda, is the oldest surviving Anglican church in continuous use outside the British Isles. It is also reportedly the oldest continuously used Protestant church in the New World. It is located in the historic centre of the town of St George’s. St. George’s...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St Georges Bermuda Summer vacation is just around the corner. As many people spend their vacation on a cruise, I thought I would take a look over the next few posts at one of the smaller, albeit nicest ports of call on the cruise ship circuit. St Georges Bermuda, due to the narrow natural harbor entrance cannot...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – 1930 Willys Knight Great Six Plaidside Roadster Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s book, Wind in the Willows, about the four friends from the river bank, Mole, Ratty, Badger and the cantankerous Mr. Toad was first published in 1908. Mr. Toad is a jovial, friendly and kind-hearted but somewhat aimless...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Common Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Recently, we were in Williamsburg to attend a graduation at the College of William and Mary. We made a weekend of this and took the opportunity to revisit Colonial Williamsburg, which we had not been to in quite a number of years. The colonial gardens are always one of the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – San Francisco de Asis Mission Church In the last post we visited El Santuario de Chimayo, which is just north of Santa Fe. Further north, four miles south of the center of Taos, is another one of the beautiful missions that can be found in this part of New Mexico. San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – El Santuario de Chimayo About 30 minutes north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, lies the tiny community of Chimayó. Of all the villages strung along the High Road from Santa Fe to Taos, Chimayó is the most interesting. It has a venerated family of weavers who have...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Railcar Graffiti Today we return to the Railyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In previous posts we looked at the Santa Fe Southern Railway and the New Mexico Rail Runner Express which use the Santa Fe depot. We have also looked at how the old freight depot has been converted to fit in with the modern use of this...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Sotterley Plantation Barns During its history, Sotterley Plantation encompassed 890 acres. There are a total of 25 buildings, apart from the plantation house itself, which have been preserved on the site giving the visitor a insight into the workings of the plantation. We have so far looked at the slave cabin...
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