And Live by the Side of the Sea

July 23, 2014 • 0 Comments

Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH

And if the reference is lost on you, here’s the original audio source (but not the video, which is recent).

Video Link: Francis Scott Key Buoy Drop 2014

July 22, 2014 • 0 Comments

With more of the story here and here, along with an older image below.

Mildred Belle

July 22, 2014 • 4 Comments

Chesapeake buy boat, Mildred Belle — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Elmar 135/4

What & Where?

July 21, 2014 • 62 Comments

Hotel Monaco (former B&O Railroad Headquarters) — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Tri-Elmar 16/4.0 ASPH

This is more of an experiment than anything else; like my last quiz, I can’t find this image anywhere online via a reverse image look-up on Google or TinEye. Can you? And if you can, please share the exact process by which you were able to find it.

Bay Talk

July 20, 2014 • 6 Comments

Seagirt Marine Terminal — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH

Down Periscope

July 19, 2014 • 4 Comments

Forward torpedo room — USS Torsk, Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH

Container Within A Container

July 18, 2014 • 13 Comments

The Space Shuttle Discovery — Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air & Space Museum, Virginia (May 2013)
Sony NEX-5R + 10-18mm

The Beginning of the West

July 18, 2014 • 16 Comments

The Eastern Continental Divide — Spruce Knob, West Virginia (June 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Tri-Elmar 16/4.0 ASPH

What & Where?

July 17, 2014 • 21 Comments

Veranda bar on the Nuclear Ship Savannah — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH

It’s been a while since my last quiz, so I figured this would suffice. Here are your clues:

It’s not in Idaho.

It’s not at Point Lookout.

It’s not in the Smithsonian.

So there ya go. Have fun! Oh, and high-speed spell-checkers, Google searches, and reverse image look-ups are all fair game!

Into the Danger Zone

July 17, 2014 • 15 Comments

Tram station for the Sunnyside Mine — Eureka, Colorado (June 2007)
Fujifilm FinePix F31fd + 36-108mm

Fellow blogger Suchled asked for more detail behind my Relic post, so I promised to oblige.

The tram station for the Sunnyside Mine just happens to be part of a bigger story, one that has three elements of very real danger: altitude sickness, avalanche, and the hidden threats of abandoned mining shafts — not to mention the possibility of stumbling into the maw of a emptied alpine lake.