– 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 – Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation Historic St. Mary’s City has recreated a tobacco plantation on land once owned by Daniel Clocker. Clocker was a carpenter and indentured servant to Thomas Cornwallis, who arrived in Maryland in 1636. Though poor and illiterate, Clocker by 1660 had acquired 200 acres of land,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St. Mary’s City Ordinary In 1634, 140 colonists led by Leonard Calvert sailed across the Atlantic on two ships and started a colony on the edge of the New World. The village they called St. Mary’s City became fourth permanent settlement in British North America and the first capital of Maryland. Historic St....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Common Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) Common Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) or Oswega Tea, as it is also known, is a member of the Lamiaceae or Mint family. It is a perennial that grows from 2- to 5-feet tall. The leaves are thin, ovate to lance shaped, from 3- to 6-inches in length. The flower heads grow at the end of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Drum Point Lighthouse The American taxpayers have known few such bargains as the hexagonal, cottage-type Drum Point Lighthouse, which cost only $5,000 to build. It is a white hexagonal cottage of 1½ stories sheathed in clapboard siding and covered with a seamed metal roof painted sienna red. The main...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Star Ferry Hong Kong Last week we visited the Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. The only way to get from Hong Kong to Kowloon is via the Star Ferry. The Star Ferry Company began in 1898 when businessman Sir Catchick Paul Chater bought all the boats from...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus latifolius) The wildflower Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus latifolius) is a member of the Fabaceae or Bean family. It is closely related to, although not as showy and perfumed as, the better known domestic Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus). The resemblance is that close that in some parts of...
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Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower The Clock Tower is located on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon Station on the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Officially named Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower, it is usually referred to as the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower because of its location. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The Offering of the Six Divas In 1990 construction began on the Tian Tan Buddha, also known as the Giant Buddha of Hong Kong, at Ngong Ping, a highland in the western part of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It was completed on December 29, 1993, the day of enlightenment of Gautama Buddha, the founder of the Buddhist...
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