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Central Virginia

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This image is a 5 shot panorama. Each image taken horizontally at 30mm and stiched together in Lightroom. The resulting file is over 10,000 pixels long.

This beautiful scene was photographed early one morning in rural central Virginia, just south of Charlottesville.

Raven’s Roost at Night

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Many of you may remember my “Buzzard’s Roost at night” image, taken at Fall Creek Falls State Park in Tennessee (Seen below). Today, I’ve prepared a new similar image – “Raven’s Roost at Night”. This one was taken at the Raven’s Roost overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Lyndhurst, Virginia.

“Raven’s Roost at Night” is a combination of more than 160 photos, taken continually and merged together in post. The tree and the rocks were lit with a handheld flash fired manually several times from different locations. We are looking west in this image, so the stars appear to be streaking downward as they circle around the North Star, which is off to the right of the image. The colors in the sky is light pollution from nearby cities, reflecting into the clouds.

Hope you enjoy!

 

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The Rotunda

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Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda, on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. I always make it a point to stop by UVa when I’m in Charlottesville.

 

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Virginia Farm

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A rural farm, just outside of Charlottesville Virginia. This is a 6 shot panorama, each a 7 exposure HDR

 

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Sunset from Humpback Rock

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If you look closely at nearly the center of the photo, there is an opening in the trees. That’s the Blue Ridge Parkway and the entrance to the parking area for the hike up to Humpback Rock. It’s quite a hike, 2 miles uphill the entire way. But they view at the top is worth every step. Both sunset and sunrise can be seen from the rocks.

Rural Northern Virginia

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After leaving UVa, I headed north to meet my aunt, MariAnne. MariAnne is a great photographer, I encourage you to visit her blog. She is a master of black and white images and long exposures.

 

We rode all around some rural back roads looking for photo opportunities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


This is a new addition to a series I’ve started of self portrait reflections. This one was much different than any of my others with the curtain, and bars. I also liked how dirty the windows were.

 

 


This one is my favorite from the day.

 

 

At the end of the day, I stopped by Herndon Virginia to visit my brother. This is a shot of downtown Herndon at sunset

 

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The University of Virginia

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A few weeks ago I had to take an unexpected road trip to Charlottesville, Virginia. My wife and I both grew up in Charlottesville and we have family and friends who still live there. Early one morning, I decided to head into town to get some photos of the University of Virginia. UVa has a beautiful campus. I only had an hour or so so I decided to shoot the Rotunda as the sun came up. Turns out it was very foggy so there wasn’t much of a sunrise, but I still managed a few good shots.

 

 

 

Rotunda

The statue shown is a statue of Thomas Jefferson.

Later, once it got a little brighter out:

Here are a few others from the grounds:

This last photo is of Scott Stadium. I was not inside, I was laying on my belly shooting under a fence, the things we’ll do to get a shot…
Scott Stadium

After I left UVa, I headed to Northern Virginia to meet up with my Aunt MariAnne, who is also a photographer. Photos from that outing coming soon!

Thanks for looking!