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Through The Lens 12 – Merry Christmas
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Through The Lens 11 – Toy Soldiers
The Toy Soldier segment of the Once Upon A Christmas Time Parade is one of my favorites. After several attempts to capture this sequence, I finally got it during a trip in Decmber 2013.
Through The Lens 10: Colonial Christmas
Christmas in Williamsburg is a great time to visit Virginia’s Colonial Capitol. Interestingly the decorations we enjoy there today are a 1940’s compromise between residents and the Colonial Williamsburg foundation. The residents wanted to decorate the homes in a modern manner but the Foundation wanted to keep to strict colonial traditions meaning no decorations. They settled on decorating using only the natural materials that would have been on hand in colonial times. While the displays we see today would have been considered wasteful three centuries ago, they’re beautiful
Through The Lens 9: Antietam Memorial Illumination
Every year on the first Saturday in December, 23,110 luminaries are lit on the fields outside Sharpsburg, MD representing the casualties from the battle of Antietam. It is a sobering site when driving through the illumination and even more so when walking the grounds with a photography permit.