– 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 – Moon Sculpture, Canyon Road, Santa Fe The new moon occurred over the weekend, so I thought this would be the perfect time to show this image of a sculpture I found along Canyon Road, the famous art gallery area of Santa Fe. The wonderful craftsmanship, and especially the look of the face in the moon, really...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bike Share, Luxembourg Bike share programs are becoming quite widespread throughout Europe and North America with a few now starting up in Asia, the Middle East and South America. From an article I found on BBC Travel, there were over 300 in 2011. This is the Vel’oh! system in Luxembourg City, which...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Happy New Year to all! Here in the Mid-Atlantic we are in that muted, almost colorless period between the firebrand explosion of fall and the winter wonderland that comes with the first snowfall. I have chosen for the first image of this New Year a complete contrast from what is outside my window. This simple...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Ca’ d’Zan Mansion Christmas Decorations For today’s post we return to Ca’ d’Zan Mansion, Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida. During our visit the staff were beginning to put up the Christmas Decorations. Here we see one of the large ornate external doors of the mansion adorned...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Central of Georgia Number 223 Detail of the chassis and rear wheel of Central of Georgia Number 223, a 1907 Baldwin C-3 Class 2-8-0 at the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah, Georgia. This image is from a five bracket HDR set. When I processed the brackets, the image did not live up to my hopes. I decided...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Basin Bath House, Eureka Springs My day trip to Eureka Springs a couple of years back produced some interesting images. Due to the harsh light they sat in my lightroom catalog without ever being worked on – until now (some friends took us so I had no control over the time of day to capture my images) . ...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Mitchell’s Folly, Eureka Springs The latest version of Perfect Effects by OnOne Software comes with a lot of new presets as well as the “Perfect Brush”. The Perfect Brush works exactly the same as Auto Mask in Lightroom making the painting in of masks much quicker. In fact, I was able to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – 1941 Cadillac Series 62 Over the Thanksgiving weekend, being that I am not into Black Friday sales, I had some time to experiment with some different finishes for my images. This shot of two 1941 Cadillac Series 62 sedans was captured at the Antique Car Show at Sully Historic Site in Chantilly, Virginia this...
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