Buena
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The Blue Ridge Mountains hold the town of Buena Vista like a gently cupped right hand. Atop the tapering ridge that would be its curving fingers sits the old Buena Vista Hotel overlooking the town below like a matronly chaperone at a proper dance. Buena Vista came into being during the “land boom” of the late 1880’s. The area used to be know as “Green Forest and Hart’s Bottom”. 50 by 100 foot lots on a grid pattern of streets, with rear alleys for coal and ice delivery were sold to Richmond’s wealthy so they could escape the miasmas and yellow fever of the City’s summers in the clean air of the mountains, There was also a huge hotel constructed with double and triple wrap around verandas that spared no expense for its patrons and their comforts. Rich iron deposits were discovered in that cupping hand and soon a mining operation commenced. The covering forest were cut and ricked for charcoal creating a year round smokey haze. The clear river, later to become the Maury provided abundant water for a large tanning operation and a paper mill a little further up and the river ceased to run clear. A brick works was developed to make bricks of the heavy clay and a glass works was added. All the industry gave the town the name of “Little Pittsburgh of the South”; and the mountain air was not so clean anymore. The ore deposits were soon exhausted and the financial crash of that era put an end to everything else. Like Carl Sandburg’s “Grass”, nature repaired the scars of man’s behavior and his tattoos of greed on the landscape. The old Hotel became a genteel school for young ladies with a steeplechase and a well regarded equestrian program that was known as the Southern Seminary, and locals still refer to it as “The Sem”. Today it is part of the campus of Southern Virginia University, a co-ed school and it is on the National Resister of Historic Places and is a Virginia Historical Landmark; a grand old gal brooding over her front yard. Acrylic on stretched canvas 48×36 inches.
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Well a cat can look at a queen!
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Ink drawing and digital manipulation /
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Ink drawing and digital manipulation /
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A photo of San Francisco skyline, looking eastward, shot after dusk on a cloudy night. This is a seamlessly stiched panoramic shot with a lot of sharp detail. Most of the famous landmarks are in this shot: Bay Bridge, Transamerica building, BofA Building, Coit Tower etc. Yerba Buena island and East Bay / Oakland is in the background.
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I took this picture outside the of the hotel I was staying at in Florida.
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So I’m from Wisconsin and I see squirrels everywhere, but they seemed so much friendlier in Florida. This little guy was running back and forth inbetween two trees and I caught him as soon as he stopped on the side walk. I was able to get so close to him!
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A photo of San Francisco skyline, looking eastward, shot after dusk on a cloudy night. This is a seamlessly stiched panoramic shot with a lot of sharp detail. Most of the famous landmarks are in this shot: Bay Bridge, Transamerica building, BofA Building, Coit Tower etc. Yerba Buena island and East Bay / Oakland is in the background.
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span of bay bridge from san francisco to yerba buena island, in the san francisco bay
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San Francisco
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Bueno Vista Social Club live on stage this mass portrait painting in oils is compiled from several differnt stills taken from a dvd of the cuban band, also featuring Ry Cooder and his son.
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Another view of my friend the crane, I think I should give him a name… What should it be? He kinda got scared when I took out my camera and ran to the other side of the lake, but being so photogenic he still gave me a great shot.
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I took this picture by hoping to get more color out of those dull trees but I don’t believe my flash was on. I very much enjoy the outcome- This was the first time I had ever seen a palm tree. It almost looks photoshoped but like all of my pictures they are completley untouched.
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Three hot air balloons in formation in the summer skies over Buena Vista, Colorado during their BalloonaVista Festival.
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