Black and White – Page 12 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Annapolis

There are events in the past that at the time go unnoticed, later they become singular.

Once upon a time in Maryland we rode past these bridges in a deadrise.

Eat!

magnolia matrix

. driven by, confronting and answering the ever present question. Is it edible?

median household income

There are 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the United States. Of the top-ten household median income counties, four are in Virginia near DC. The WPA photographers have new ground to plow.

shark

Biked from Falls Church downhill nine miles to the Mall. Many people, kites and a shark.

the density was notable

Wages of Sin

Wages of sin, post swimming in the slime pool, rolling in Fauquier County bovine dejection, receiving a Dawn dish detergent bath from two pack members

Two dogs and a Bear

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Drank from a stream, walked in deep water, rolled in cow dung. The dogs did. A good day.

memory

my father planted daffodils next to the starkes’ 1890 silver maple in 1990. 2025 the starkes and my dad are gone. Their plantings remain.

Country Store, Dalmation, improvised spittoon, Mountain Dew

moon eclipsed

Moon photographed from the Harlow house driveway 250314

I asked Grok to “generate an image of the entire sphere of the earth, western hemisphere, as seen from space in the penumbra of the earth’s shadow so that all one can see of the earth is its backlit glowing atmosphere. The atmosphere filters out the short wavelengths of the sun’s visible spectrum, the atmosphere of the earth should be a primarily reddish hue.” Grok tried.

Clovis and Yadkin

Driving with Dorsey. What will turn up. Work from 1000 years ago turned up in the course of turning the soil. Dorsey was a farmer, farmers turn soil and in the course of their labor unearth the production of countless individuals from millennia. In both cases the discovery and manufacture driven by intelligence, art and the need to eat.

Information on projectile points Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Pictured, Mr. Gordon Shifflett.