Author: Jim
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Circle of Doom
Houston, Alabama. August 2025.
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Winston County
Back roads are always fun to explore, and there’s a lot of them in Alabama. On one outing last summer, we drove a little ways south to a few points of interest in what turned out to be Winston County. The first spot we found was Corinth Church, built in 1884, disbanded in the early…
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Chiba Blue
Chiba, Japan. October 2025.
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Covered Bridges
On my last visit to Alabama, we went on a drive to see some covered bridges. We ended up finding three of the eleven such bridges that remain standing in the state. I have always associated covered bridges with states further north, but you can learn about the ones in Alabama here; there is both…
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Cardiac
Birmingham, Alabama. February 2026.
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More than Dross
During my most recent stay in Huntsville, Alabama, I took a morning and drove down to Birmingham to photograph the long-closed Sloss Furnaces. (Unlike the English city, this one is pronounced BURR-ming-HAM, not BURR-ming-um.) The Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark is a wonderful place to photograph. While you can’t climb on (most) things, the decommissioned…
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Chomp
Portland, Oregon. November 2023.
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Oregon Eclectica
This week’s post will wrap up this mini-series from Tillamook County, Oregon, and its coastline. I don’t have another visit on the calendar yet, but as it is one of my wife’s favorite places, I’m sure I’ll be back. This is good, because I have barely scratched the surface here. This post presents three pairs…
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Latched
Tillamook, Oregon. November 2023.
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Forgotten in Tillamook
I’m always excited to stumble upon an old abandoned vehicle like the one above—they are just so photogenic!—but finding it paired with the sign above was priceless. The textures on vehicles like this are always wonderful, too. Surprisingly, the headlights look pristine; they must be made of glass rather than plastic. It’s pretty clear that…