Category Archives: Art/Scenic

McKaig Road Toward Walkersville

  Get a Sense of History Outside Downtown Frederick Periodically I get to drive McKaig Road between New Market and Walkersville, MD. It’s a beautiful rural drive that doglegs at Mt Pleasant to continue into W’ville on Crum Road.  Along the way are several “million dollar views”, well worth protecting from development.  Remember that last...

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Thanksgiving, 2012

Thanksgiving Day here in the Frederick, Maryland, area was unbelievably beautiful, and not just weather-wise.  We spent it at daughter Julianne’s newly purchased home with her husband and daughter, her older brother Chris and the children’s mother, Judy.  Younger son Nathan remained in Charlotte, and celebrated with his peers in the physics department.  Hmmm, maybe...

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The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You

What? Cell phone photos?  Are you kidding or crazy? Nope, neither. Professional photographer Chase Jarvis wrote a book entitled “The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You” about his use of his iPhone camera to capture daily events and to hone his vision.  Jarvis got an iPhone in 2007, when they first became available,...

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The Sky’s Afire

If you’re from the area, – especially New Wilmington, Pulaski, New Bedford – you know the extraordinary beauty of the stretch of road that links these towns.

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As The Front Comes In

Our field trip for this October’s Intermediate Photography Class sponsored by the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, ended up on a ridge top with a westerly view last Wednesday.  The previous 4 or 5 days of beautiful autumnal blue sky weather was just about to come to and end.  As we looked...

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