– 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 – Long Branch Long Branch is an early 19th-century plantation house in Millwood, Clark County, Virginia. It was built by Robert Carter Burwell. Burwell established Long Branch Plantation around 1790 when he inherited the land from his grandfather. During the early years of the plantation, Burwell lived with his...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Beverley Mill Beverley Mill is the imposing stone structure seen by the thousands of motorist who travel west through Thoroughfare Gap on Interstate 66 in Northern Virginia. The mill was actually threatened by the construction of the highway. A cooperative effort by citizens groups and federal and state highway...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Camel Steam Locomotive One of the most unusual looking exhibits at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore is No 305. This is a Camel Steam Locomotive. The name Camel came from the strange arrangement of the engineer’s cab which sat directly atop the boiler. This odd design which became synonymous...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Sherrick Farm The Sherrick Farm is located within the Antietam National Battlefield. It is owned by the National Park Service and like many of the buildings on the battlefield not open to the public. It is at the southern end of the battlefield near Burnside Bridge. Owned by 60-year old Joseph and 55-year old...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Herns Mill Covered Bridge Herns Mill Covered Bridge is located just outside Lewisburg, West Virginia. It was built in 1884 by order of the Greenbrier, West Virginia County Court. Road commissioners for the Lewisburg District of the County, Harvey Handly and J.W. Johnston, had been ordered in the January of that...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The Falls Church The Falls Church is an Episcopal church from which the city of Falls Church in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC takes its name. The predecessor to the building we see today was one of the first churches built in the Truro Parish. The parish was created by the General Assembly of Virginia on...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Dorchester County Courthouse The present Dorchester County Courthouse in Cambridge, Maryland is the third to be built in the city and the second on this site. Built in 1852, the Italianate structure replaced its predecessor which was destroyed by fire. Around the time this courthouse was built, many architectural...
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The Hokes Mill Covered Bridge spans Second Creek outside Ronceverte in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The bridge is 12 feet wide and 81 feet, 6 inches long. The superstructure consists of a modified version of the patented Long Truss with board-and-batten siding and a standing seam metal roof. The Long Truss design resembles a Howe truss with the diagonal trusses...
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