– 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 – Pioneer Square Pergola The Pioneer Square neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle was once the heart of the city. The city’s Seattle’s founders settled there in 1852. The early structures in the neighborhood were mostly wooden, and nearly all burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Chittenden Locks The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks are on the Lake Washington Ship Canal which links Lake Washington, Lake Union and Salmon Bay with the Puget Sound. They are located just a few miles west of the Fishermen’s Terminal we visited last week. Following the failure of several private canal...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Barbados Lighthouses The island of Barbados, located in the Atlantic to the east of the other islands of the Lesser Antilles, has four historic lighthouses. Three are listed as active, although there are reports that they are not always in service. All four are endangered by neglect and are much in need of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Meadowlark Botanical Garden Tulips Spring is officially here as determined by both the astrological and meteorological calendars. Try telling that to the weather! The famous Cherry Blossom Festival has begun in Washington DC but nobody thought to consult with the trees themselves. Due to the prolonged cold the...
Learn More– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Fishermens Terminal Seattle Fishermens Terminal is located on Salmon Bay in the Interbay neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, east of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and immediately west of the Ballard Bridge (seen in the background of the image above). Operated by the Port of Seattle, it is home to the Pacific...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bettys Hope Details Part 2 In the last post we started to look at some of the details of the Bettys Hope windmills. (click here to learn more about life on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation). We left that post with a view of the entrance into the windmill to where the mechanism for grinding the sugar cane can be...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bettys Hope Details Part 1 Bettys Hope, which we looked at in February last year, was the largest sugar plantation in Antigua (click here to learn more about life on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation). It is somewhere I like to try to visit each time we are on the island. My images from each visit, though, had...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Doubling Point Lighthouse Doubling Point Lighthouse is located at the west end of Arrowsic Island, Maine, in the main channel of the Kennebec River where it takes a sharp turn. Though perhaps hard to imagine today, at one time the Kennebec River was a very busy waterway as evidenced by the river traffic report...
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