Catawba NC Not for download or reuse. This photograph is mine and copyrighted. A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that threshes grain, that is, it removes the seeds from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. Before such machines were developed, threshing was done…
Union Grove NC Not for download or reuse. This photograph is mine and copyrighted. Linney’s Mill is a family business, one of the few fully operational and producing mills in existence in North Carolina. You can watch as it works producing corn meal with water-wheel-powered grinding stones, [now] for about 65 years. William’s father, W.L. Linney, built a dam and…
Waxhaw NC Not for download or reuse. This photograph is mine and copyrighted. One-story brick commercial building constructed in two stages; the western half of the building was built in 1916, and the nearly identical eastern half was added c. 1927. Both sections display large angled display windows topped by multi-pane transoms, recessed double-leaf entrances and a modestly corbeled cornice…
From 2015 through last year, I’ve taken many color photos. I hope to start exploring black and white this year. On this blog, I’ll share both color and monochrome, while only monochrome on Instagram.