The pink colored outside lamp was what caught my eye in this image…along with the other warm and bright colors. Another reason why one should always look up when looking for photographic subjects.
Category Archives: Architecture
Bachelor’s Hall Plantation
While on one of my frequent photo road trips, when I have absolutely no idea where I am going…I just drive and look for things that might make a good photo…I passed Bachelor’s Hall Plantation located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. A quick Google search later determined it was built in the late 1700s. I was not sure whether or not it was being lived in, so after I parked nearby to see what I could see, I sort of snuck around the perimeter of the place to capture some images. It was not until after I got back home that I determined the grounds were indeed open to the public, so I’ll have to go back and make a few more close-up images. This is the house as seen from the highway in front.
This is an outbuilding around back of the main house. What I found especially interesting was the wide brick driveway and how it led my eyes to the log cabin.
Granny’s
Granny’s Antiques is located in Eden, NC. She sells local honey in addition to old treasures, or so I found out by looking at the sign in the window. The place was closed when I was there. No matter, I liked the look of the place and so did my camera.
Virginia Museum of Natural History
The Virginia Museum of Natural History is located in Martinsville, and we live just outside the city. Martinsville once was a strong economic hub for the Commonwealth of Virginia, with a large manufacturing base focused primarily on textiles and furniture. Then, due to various reasons some economic some political, much of that manufacturing was shifted to overseas locations, leaving the Martinsville area somewhat depressed. It’s slowly getting better, but one attraction of the area that has grown quickly is the new Museum of Natural History located in the city. Besides its obvious educational purpose, it’s a great building on which to focus a camera. Here’s two examples I made recently.
A Garden Home
I have photographed a portion of this light green shade stuccoed wall on a house in Martinsville Virginia before, but I always want to go back and “do it again.” It’s the shadows, the textures, the lone window and in this case the bright red flowers in bloom that caught my attention. Whenever I see this house I’m reminded when we were living in Europe while in the Army, and visited England where homes like this are seen all over…houses I refer to as “garden homes.”
One Nice House
This old Victorian-style “Gingerbread” house is now home to a real estate firm in Martinsville, Virginia where I live. I wanted to make a photo of it while there was still some snow on the bushes out front. I’m glad I did that when I did, because by the time I got home, most of the snow had melted. If you have never used a wide angle focal length such as here, you will not understand why the house “leans” a bit. It’s all about the lens design, such that you get as much in the frame as possible. So much for my photo technology teachings.
Salem College View
I have made photos of this steeple at Salem College in North Carolina on several occasions. The private college is located in Old Salem in Winston-Salem and is only an hour’s drive or so form where we live in Virginia. This time I wanted to look at the steeple from a new angle and this is what I got. The dark skies added to the image in my opinion.
Front and Back
Here’s the front of a historic house in Old Salem, North Carolina.
Now, here’s an image of the rear of that same house.
Had I not wandered around back I would never have known that the rear entrance to the house was at a much lower elevation compared to the front and had a very nice set of stairs going up. Since that entrance was “street-side” it was in fact perhaps the main entryway.
Patterns and Shadows
Nothing special here…just two images I made recently. The first one is an original cobble-stone street in Danville, Virginia…unused today. The other is…well…just a brick wall with some shadows left by the bush in front. One of the best parts of digital photography is that you can “shoot away” whenever your eye spots something of interest…whether or not anyone else besides you is in fact “interested.”
