Tag: Alabama
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Credit Cards Accepted
Decatur, Alabama. May 2025.
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Serviceless Stations
On one of our backroads drives in Alabama last August, we came upon an abandoned gas station. August in Alabama is hot and humid. So humid, in fact, that when I got out of the nicely air conditioned car my camera completely fogged up. (Want to avoid this problem? Keep your camera in the trunk…
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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.…