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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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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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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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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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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…
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Tillamook County Woodlands
Part of what makes Tillamook County nice from a photographic standpoint is the diversity of subject matter. You can’t know from looking at it, but the image above was within 20 yards of a seaside cliff. As is typical for the Pacific Northwest, the persistent wetness results in lots of moss covering everything that stands…
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Tillamook Coast
Last week’s post showed nothing but views to the west from our favorite getaway house in Oceanside, Oregon. From that same deck, the image above looks south along the Tillamook County coast towards Cape Lookout. The changeable weather in late fall and winter is definitely the photographer’s friend here, because so many things can happen…
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Storm Rock Study
Our reigning favorite place to go for a week is a house high up on a ridge in Oceanside, Oregon. There are elevated views across a wide swath of ocean and coastline. The views are amazing, but are somewhat constrained by some evergreen trees. One of the unobstructed views is of Storm Rock, featured in…
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Birds of Barr Lake
Well, last week I claimed that this week we would venture to the Oregon coast, but after spending a few hours at Barr Lake State Park I had a lot of bird pictures that I wanted to share. So Oregon will have to wait one more week. I had not been to Barr Lake before.…
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
This week’s post is a little random. After my long series on Japan, I have a lot of catching up to do with my images, both in terms of editing and blogging. For this post, I decided to share an assortment of images from the city I live in, Castle Pines. No one of these…