– 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 – Danson House Danson House is a Grade I listed building at the centre of Danson Park in the London Borough of Bexley. The Georgian mansion was built in 1766 by Sir John Boyd for his second wife Catherine Chapone. The Early Years The Danson Estates, as the property was originally known, date back to at least 1284....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Morattico Post Office The Morattico Post Office is one of 69 contributing buildings in the Morattico Historic District. The historic district is part of the unincorporated village of Morattico. It is a small watermen’s community situated on a peninsula on the eastern bank of the Rappahannock River in Lancaster...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bacons Castle On both historical and architectural grounds, Bacons Castle is one of the important buildings of the 17th century colonial period. It is the oldest documented brick dwelling in the United States. The building is a rare example of Jacobean architecture in the New World. The property was given the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St Lukes Church St Lukes Church is the oldest church of English foundation in America. The date of foundation has never been verified with any certainty despite much research. The consensus is that the church was founded in 1632. Two things support this date, both of which would be deemed circumstantial in a...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Antigua Sugar Mills The economy of Antigua today is dependent on tourism. The port of St. Johns is a popular stop on the cruise ship routes. There is also a well established network of resorts and villas for those who wish to stay on the island a little longer than the few hours offered to the cruise ship...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Hunter House Hunter House is located towards the rear of Nottoway Park on Courthouse Road in Vienna, Virginia. In fact as you drive past the park with its pick-up games of basketball and open grassland you would not know that behind the line of trees behind the sports field lies a late 19th century farmhouse. The...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Stylemans Almshouses The Stylemans Almshouses are a terrace of twelve small row houses in Bexley, Kent. An almshouse is place of residence for poor, old and distressed people. The term, which dates back to the 10th century when the first such properties were set up, comes from “Alms”. Alms comes from an Old...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Virginia State Capitol The Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia was designated a National Historic Landmark in December 1960. The United States National Park Service which maintains the register of National Historic Landmarks and the National register of Historic Places had the building designated as the...
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