Two Things Challenge: Shadows / Patterns (Color)

Shadow and Pattern : Stairs at a church on Underwood and 5th Streets NW

This week's Two Things Challenge was Shadows / Patterns. I managed to get several good shots for this challenge and am dividing my entry into two parts--a set in color and a set in black and white.

Pattern : Wood Grain : Deck of the Susan Constant : Jamestown, Virginia

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Pattern : Safety Bars : Takoma Theater : Washington, D.C.

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Two Things Challenge: Shadows / Patterns (B&W)

Shadow and Pattern : Erosion Fencing : Yorktown, Virginia

Here's another take on this week's Two Things Challenge: Shadows / Patterns. All black and white. To see color images for this challenge, go here.

Shadow : Fence : Takoma : Washington, D.C.

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Shadow : Trash Can and Gangplank Grip : Dock for the Susan Constant : Jamestown, Virginia

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Jamestown 1607

Belfry : Re-creation of the church in Jamestown Fort

Last week, I spent two days out in the states visiting the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia. The triangle includes Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown in the southeastern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

On Thursday, I spent the day in Jamestown, seeing the historic reconstruction and archeological digs of the oldest permanent English settlement in what would later become the United States. Founded on May 13, 1607 by the London Company--later the Virginia Company--Jamestown was the first seat of government in America beginning with the Jamestown Council in 1616.

Rope en suite : Aboard the Susan Constant

In 2007, the Queen of England revisited Jamestown to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the London Company and the establishment of this settlement. Prior to her recent visit, Her Majesty visited Jamestown in 1957 to mark the 350th anniversary and to participate in the dedication of the site as an official historic monument.

Rope on deck : Aboard the Susan Constant

These are just a few pictures I took aboard the replica of the Susan Constant, one of three ships that carried 104 men and boys across the Atlantic to Virginia. To see more pictures from Historic Jamestown, see the slideshow below.



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