The Little Things

Black And White Photography, Photography, Steven

Little Things © Steven Willard

Sometimes it’s the little things we remember about a building. Maybe it’s the door handles, or the tile work in the bathrooms. Perhaps it’s the light switches or the cabinet pulls in the kitchen. These are the little things down at the human scale where we can touch them, and they often speak to us in ways that are more meaningful than tall columns or dramatic arches and domed ceilings. This ornate offering is a detail of a gate post I came upon in Washington, Connecticut.

OLYMPUS OMD EM1, 40-150mm f2.8 zoom, processed in PS Express and Snapseed.

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Poul gets off the bus

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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Meet Poul (Paul). If I had a twin soul Poul would be it. Even his wife says so. Despite our age difference we just click when we are together. I hope to be just as active when I reach 85.

Nikon D800
Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 lens
PP in LR and Silver efex proII

Hurricanes in the Mountains

Black And White Photography, Laurie, Photography

Florence brought devastation to the Carolinas, and it will take a very long time for the land and the people to recover.  In the mountains of Southwest Virginia, we were lucky in terms of flooding and power outages.  This image was taken in Nelson County on the day that Hurricane Florence came through.

Florence though, was nothing like Camille, at least not in Nelson County.

On August 19, 1969, in the middle of the night while everyone slept, Camille stalled over Nelson County, Virginia, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, dropping an astonishing 27 to 31 inches of rain in just a five-hour period. The sudden inundation of water caused an entire side of a mountain at Davis Creek to cave in, destroying 23 of 25 homes.

Camille took 153 lives in Nelson County.  Property damage in Virginia topped a half-billion dollars, and it was a decade before the commonwealth got back to normal.

a rolling museum

Andre, Black And White Photography, Photography

During summer, this steam train rolls along an old track.

Once, this track was used to connect coal mines and steel plants with the industrial inland harbor from where the steel plants got the ore and the coal mined sent the coal. For several decades the track was closed, when a railroad museum got the idea to send one on their steam trains on the track again.

During summer you can meet the train on track at the first Sunday of the month. Additional driving days are in winter around St. Nick (Dec. 6th)

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