Places
Click Here to Purchase Photo Today’s picture is of the day is of the John Banister House in Newport Rhode Island it is a beautiful house restored to the period of which it was built. Built in 1751 the house is decorated with many pieces which were brought back by Captain John Banister himself from [...]
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Click Here to Purchase Photo The Dutch Island Lighthouse is located on Dutch Island, which is also known as Quetenis, its Indian name. This Island lies in Narragansett Bay between the village of Saunderstown, which is part of North Kingstown, and the West side of Jamestown. Today the small 81 acre island is only accessible [...]
Click Here to Purchase Photo For today’s picture I have selected a Harvester, simply because it is harvest time of year. Halloween in fact started as a harvest party of sorts, and maintains many associations with harvest, even today, such as: hay, pumpkins, apples, corn stalks, etc. Believe it or not, Rhode Island actually has [...]
Click Here to Purchase Photo Today’s picture is of the clouds reflecting in Belleville Pond at Ryan Park; specificallyin the smaller inlet area on the East side of the bridge near the boat launch. Well the week is almost over and hopefully I inspired you and given you a sense of what a gem Ryan [...]
Click Here to Purchase Photo This picture of a white birch tree was taken in Ryan Park just after sunset. I think it looks pretty good considering I took it at iso 3200. Which is pretty crazy considering that not long ago this would be what an iso 800 or so shot would look like [...]
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Here is the same picture from yesterday of the bridge over Belleville Pond in color as promised (actually I made no promise, following the principle of under promising and over delivering). You will probably notice that the image is a actually a little different, as I did change the angle of it a little and [...]
Today’s picture of the day is a photograph of the bridge over Ryan Park. I know you want to see the fall colors and all, but today you get the black and white, so you can first appreciate the picture without the colors. There are two reasons why I am doing this first I really [...]
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The Bradford Soap Works is a historic Rhode Island company that began as a producer of soaps for the textile industry over 130 years ago in 1876 during the textile boom in Rhode Island. This should come as no surprise since the industrial revolution began right in Pawtucket Rhode Island with Slater’s Mill in 1793. [...]
Fort Wetherill is a historic fort located on Conanicut Island, which contains the entire the city of Jamestown and sits in the middle of Narraganset Bay. The location had fortifications going back as far as the colonial period. The site was called the battery at Dumpling Rock, and served together with the then newly constructed Fort Adams in Newport to protect the East Passage of Narragansett Bay.
The Warwick Neck Lighthouse is located at the bottom of Warwick Neck. The lighthouse has played a pivotal role in directing ships through the upper parts of Narragansett Bay to and from Providence. The current lighthouse is run by the Coast Guard under the Department of Homeland Security.
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