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Texaco Station

Daily Photo – Texaco Station

This old Texaco Station sits at the intersection of routes 178 and 303 (Ace Basin Pkwy and Green Pond Hwy) near Green Pond, South Carolina. I spotted it while driving from Charleston to Savannah one day and couldn’t resist framing a shot. Were I passing by again now, I’d probably shoot a bracket for an HDR given the structural qualities of the scene and the tonal range. Just for grins, I decided to remove the yellow from the image and […]

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Flags of Fort Sumter

Daily Photo – Flags of Fort Sumter

The five flags below the current US flag in this image represent the five flags that flew over the fort during the Civil War.

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USS Yorktown CV-10

Daily Photo – USS Yorktown

The USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the US Navy. Commissioned in April 1943, she saw action in the Pacific, replacing CV-5 (also named USS Yorktown) lost at the Battle of Midway. She was build in just sixteen-and-a-half months!

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Lone Star

Daily Photo – Lone Star

Taken around 3:00pm on a late January afternoon, the trees are all devoid of leaves. The sun was still high enough in the sky to light the face of the barn and the gate without interruption from the shadows of the trees.

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Dawn in the Oilfield

Daily Photo – Dawn in the Oilfield

This ‘nodding donkey’ was whirring away on the beach near High Island in Texas. The sun is still a 33 minutes away from breaking above the horizon.

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Abandoned Row-Boat

Daily Photo – Abandoned Row-Boat

Unlike yesterday’s image, this one took a bit more effort. I didn’t see the abandoned row-boat when I pulled the car off the road, just the inlet. It was as I was trying to get a better perspective on the inlet that I spied the boat in the weeds. I had to scramble down a muddy hillside, navigate some thorny bushes and cross a small stream to get the boat in the foreground of my shot. All of which left […]

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