architecture
A Saturday Drive Last Saturday, I took a drive out to Silverton and visited my friends, Jeff and Tina, owners of the Blue Acres Farm on Cascade Highway. We had a delightful visit, I got the full tour of the farm, and learned that Jeff is now a barn quilt Read more
Indian Shaker Church & Gulick Homestead Site As of 2017, one of the few structures still standing at the historic Indian Shaker Church & Gulick Homestead site along the Columbia River near The Dalles, Oregon. This fishing village above the banks of the Columbia River is not far from the Read more
A ghost of ornate Italian architecture, the Waldron Bros. Drug Store stands guard along the railroad tracks, as the oldest standing commercial building in Oregon.
Main Post Office, Tonopah Nevada Built in 1941, the downtown post office on Main Street in Tonopah, Nevada opened for business on the fateful date of December 7, 1941, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor. The architecture of the Tonopah post office is a 20th century style Read more
Straddling the California/Nevada border on U.S. Highway 395, the Coleville Post Office is nestled between the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the West Walker River. The post office in Coleville was established in 1868…
A quaint country church in Mountain Home, Oregon. Originally established in 1883 as a one-room church, this current building was re-built in 1986 after it was was destroyed by arson. Photo captured with my Fujifilm X-Pro2 and processed in-camera using Acros digital film simulation. Existing power lines captured within the Read more
This shop building is part of a working hazelnut farm in Laurel, Oregon, just off Campbell Road. From its interesting shape and building materials, this old shop uses a traditional Dutch roof covered in corrugated sheet metal and built on concrete “cinder block” walls, which appear to be from the Read more
Laurel Valley Store is the old general store in Laurel, Oregon. We would stop here for refreshments when biking or just going for a drive in the country.
Kinton Grange Hall Kinton Grange Hall, established 1917 in Washington County, Oregon. Tightly cropped on this 35mm APS-C lens, but I’m standing in the middle of Highway 210 to get this shot! Shot on Fujifilm X-E2S using Monochrome + Yellow Filter film simulation and a manual focus TTArtisan APS-C 35mm Read more