I made it up for the last sunrise of 2016. This is a photography blog so that’s enough words.
The scenic Colonial Parkway runs along the James River. | Order a print of this image.
Williamsburg
Always Go Back…If You Can.
It pays to scout out a new shooting location. Then you can go back and get the good shots. I’m glad I still had time on our little trip or I wouldn’t have discovered this awesome angle of yesterday’s shoot.
Almost all 1,561 acres of Jamestown Island. | Order a print of this image.
Challenge
I’m committing to competing in the Challenge Williamsburg this Summer. I took an entire year off of racing and am itching to get back “in the saddle” so to speak. I think I might be done (won’t really say “never”) with pure bicycle racing for now, but need/want to stay fit. I think this is how I’ll do it. I was looking over the course maps and sure enough, this is where it starts!
Jamestown Beach Park near Williamsburg, VA
Keyhole
Feeling creative on a trip to Williamsburg a year or two ago.
The Wren Building on the campus of William & Mary.
Bamboo
I only post one image here per day, but I’ve taken countless images over this past year. I should start going back through my photos more often because I’d find stuff that I completely forgot about. Perhaps that’s why I took the image in the first place…
We usually go to Williamsburg in the cold months, but we recently went in the summer so everything was still green.
The James
How appropriate was it that we’d take the Williamsburg back across the James?!
Not sure what it is about Williamsburg, but we really love it.
Bacon’s Castle
No this isn’t Kevin Bacon’s house. No, they don’t store bacon here. It was a trip that really started with “let’s ride the ferry today.”
side note: I had participated in a ride back in 1988 that’s now part of Bike Virginia. The very first edition was called “The Colonial Williamsburg Bike Trek” and it was a first for me. First really big, organized ride and my first one on my own. Big deal as a junior in high school. No parents. No siblings. Lots of responsibility.
Anyway, I remember part of that ride back in ’88 had us hop the ferry over to Surry and ride near all the crop fields and I thought it was a very cool place. So I convinced my wife to hop the ferry and we explored Surry for a day. If you’re into history, I highly recommend it.
One of the many Jacobean-style rooms at Bacon’s Castle. | Order a print of this image.
DOG Street
I’m always concerned about what the reaction will be when I send my camera soaring into the air. I was especially concerned while visiting WIlliamsburg this weekend. I don’t know specifically why, but it just felt weird to me to be flying over Duke of Gloucester Street. It just seems like such a proper place and I didn’t want to distract or disturb. I ended up launching from the fields behind the Wren Building and flying to just over the Wren Building. So, for all the Tribe alumni – enjoy.
37°16’15” N 76°42’41” W. | Order a print of this image.
Tasting
My wife an I went to a wine tasting yesterday. We thought it was a very adult thing to do, why not? We both got a little buzzed from just the tasting and neither one of us get it – the whole wine tasting thing. Just what is a “silky finish” supposed to taste like?! We wondered if you blindfolded someone and gave them the same wine in three glasses, but told them they were different if they would notice.
We have very similar tastes. Apparently we really like the dessert wines so they might as well have served us plain grape juice.
These are just about to be harvested at the Williamsburg Winery
Weekend Getaway
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
– Robert Orben
Our weekend home. | 37°16’5″ N 76°47’35” W
The River
One of our favorite places to visit is WIlliamsburg and the last time we ventured out a little further than usual and found this place. Needless to say there’s a ton of history in this area and we’d never been to this site before. And as always, great photo opportunities everywhere we went.
This is where I took this one | Order a print of this image.
