Historic home tour flower arrangement

Earlier this year I had the responsibility for documenting the flower arrangements associated with a home tour. This was something I thoroughly enjoyed and in the course of the time spent, learned quite a bit. With my camera and available light I did the best that I could and some of the results were really quite acceptable...perhaps a bit better. Here is one that I was pleased with because of the nice light and the composition.

House built from a ship

For the last few months I've been working on a very interesting project doing desktop publishing for a group putting together an historic guide of the Northern Neck. This guide includes the four counties here as well as King George and Essex county. (I am hopeful that this will be available for purchase by the end of the year, or worst case, early in 2011.)

They were having difficulty in getting a couple of photos and I volunteered to get two of the ones needed to comlete the set which includes more than 400 total. This is one of the ones I volunteered for. The reason it was hard to shoot is that it can't be accessed by land anymore and it is very difficult to shoot from land. Naturally I enlisted a friend I have developed who is a fisherman and off we went.

This house, which obviously is abandoned, was put together with parts of a ship that was shipwrecked in the area. Note the portholes....not your most common architectural attribute. Just a little quirky and fun.