Tag Archives: McGuire

Modern Photography: Little Details At The Entrance

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Sarah Kay Bierle

While I enjoy landscape photography, my favorite images to “shoot” are detail-oriented. As I sorted through my own image archives, I tried to figure out why my travel photo files of battlefields are intermixed with pictures of barn rafters, porch flags, … Continue reading →

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Thinking About Historic Graveyards

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Okay…historical confession time: I like historic graveyards. To me, it’s special to wander around a cemetery, finding the graves of Civil War generals, officers, soldiers, and civilians that I’ve studied. Some folks find that a little freaky, morbid, weird, or … Continue reading →

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Skeleton In The Attic

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Sarah Kay Bierle

I was doing some detail photography outside my favorite historical house in Winchester, Virginia. (It’s actually modern law 0ffices, but during the 1860’s, it was the McGuire family home.) Pointing my camera lens toward the upper garret windows, I zoomed in … Continue reading →

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