Tag: Alabama
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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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Circle of Doom
Houston, Alabama. August 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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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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Cardiac
Birmingham, Alabama. February 2026.
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Tired Places in Old Madison
Madison, Alabama, has a cute little historic downtown. It’s not large—only a block or two long—and although it looks fresh and well-manicured, if you stray even a short distance beyond that immediate area there are a lot of structures that have been abandoned or neglected. It’s entirely predictable where I ended up. The building above…
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Gear Envy
Huntsville, Alabama. March 2025.
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Shady Shores
A few months ago I posted about our visit to the Alabama gulf coast, in particular Gulf State Park and the birds I photographed in the area. One day while we were driving back to our hotel, I spotted the brightly multi-colored building featured here. I didn’t stop then, but made sure to go back.…
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Desoto State Park
For the next few weeks I am going to circle back to Alabama and fill in a few entries that got squeezed out by the Yorkshire trip. We’ll start with Desoto State Park in far northeast Alabama. The part is divided into two disjoint pieces: the main section with the campgrounds (where Google Maps will…
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Dam Log
Desoto State Park, Alabama. April 2025.