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Used a lensbaby special effects lens. Towson Maryland USA From the National Park Service site: "The history of the Hampton estate began in 1745 when Col. Charles Ridgely, a third generation Marylander, purchased a 1,500 acre tract of land in northern Baltimore County. At first a tobacco plantation, in 1761, Col. Ridgely and his two sons established the Northampton Ironworks, which eventually provided much needed material for the American Revolution. This wartime industry created mass wealth for the Ridgelys on the labor of the enslaved, indentured servants, and British prisoners of war. The ironworks continued to be the principal basis of the family’s wealth until c. 1830. The Hampton estate grew to be a large, Southern-style plantation having planted fields of grains, orchards, and herds of livestock, along with the ironworks, mining, marble and limestone quarries, mills, and mercantile interests. All these activities were supported by enslaved and indentured laborers, and later aft...

My focus has always been on the natural world and its beauty whether it be a dragonfly, flower, frog, or tree bark. When viewing our world, I look at how people and architectural structures fit into it now and in the past. Do they coexist with their natural surroundings or look out of place? To that end, what compels me to take photos is, not only our natural world, but the history we created within it, thus combining my two loves of nature and history. It is my intention that my photographs of landscapes and architecture, as well as close ups of nature and historical artifacts, give us a sense of the world around us. As a photographer and naturalist, I continually search for the obscure, as well as the obvious, as I believe without...