– 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 Michael and All Angels Church St Michael and All Angels Church is the Parish Church of Wilmington, in North West Kent, England. Wilmington lies on the River Darent between Dartford and Sutton-at-Hone. The original St Michael and All Angels Church was a Chapel of Ease. It was attached to St John The Baptist...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Lantz Mill The Lantz Mill is located about two miles west of Edinburg in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built on the north bank of Stony Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. It is a two-and-a half story frame building resting on an eight-foot high limestone foundation. The current...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Shenandoah County Courthouse The Shenandoah County Courthouse is located in the center of Woodstock in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Shenandoah County was formed in 1772 from Frederick and Augusta Counties. It was originally called Dunmore County after Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Cherry Hill Farmhouse Cherry Hill Farmhouse is a Greek Revival style farmstead in Falls Church, Virginia. It was built in 1845 but its history dates back to before the Revolutionary War. The original Cherry Hill plantation was part of a 248-acre tract of land granted to John Trammell by Lord Fairfax in 1729. It...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St John The Baptist Church St John The Baptist Church is the parish church of Sutton-at-Hone in North West Kent, England. Sutton-at-Hone is a village on the River Darent about two miles south of Dartford. The village and its church have a long history. Both were included in the Domesday Book, the record of much of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building is the headquarters of the United States Department of the Interior. Also known as the Main Interior Building, it is located on a large, double city block in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Ware Parish Church Ware Parish Church is in Gloucester County in the lower part of the Middle Peninsula of Virginia. The county was formed from York County in 1651. There were four parishes of the Anglican Church in the county: Abingdon, Kingston, Petsworth and Ware. These four parishes were formed between 1655...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Richmond County Courthouse For those of you not from Virginia, Richmond County is nowhere near the city of Richmond. The county is 53 miles Northeast of the city on Virginia’s Northern Neck between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. It was formed from Old Rappahannock County in 1692. The first court house...
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