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Street Scenes on East Davis Street, Culpeper, Virginia /  by Todd Henson

LOVE in Culpeper, Virginia

In early March of 2026 my father and I visited Culpeper, Virginia. We stopped by the Museum of Culpeper History at the train depot, and afterwards I walked up and down East Davis Street photographing some street scenes. I don’t often practice street photography but I found I quite enjoyed it. I hope you enjoy some of the results of my attempts.

A view up East Davis Street in Culpeper, Virginia

Bikes on East Davis Street

Yowell Hardware

East Davis Street motorcycle gathering

East and Davis Streets in Culpeper, Virginia

Gospel Tabernacle Assembly of God Church in Culpeper, Virginia

The end of East Davis Street in Culpeper, Virginia

Suites off East Davis, a boutique hotel in Culpeper, Virginia

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First Spring Crocus of 2026 /  by Todd Henson

First spring crocus of 2026

On March 7th my father pointed out the first small crocus blossoms of the year opening out front of his house. I had my camera with me that day so of course I couldn’t resist getting down on the ground to create some photographs to capture this beautiful signal of the beginning of spring in 2026.

Inside a crocus

Early spring crocus

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One Windy Morning /  by Todd Henson

Looking Back Along the Abandoned Rails

I woke early one late June morning while on vacation with my father in New Hampshire. I wandered out behind the inn we were staying at to find this lovely little scene with a range of wildflowers and grass around a large boulder in the foreground and set against a wooded background. It was a very windy morning which made photography a challenge. But I decided to embrace the wind and intentionally included evidence of it within this image.

Processing the Image

Initially I tried using a fast enough shutter speed to still as much of the wind-induced motion as I could, given the low light of early morning. That resulted in the photo below, which was made with a shutter speed of 0.4 seconds. There is still some motion blur, but it’s at a minimum.

A 0.4 second exposure to try to minimize blur caused by the wind.

That’s when I decided to fully embrace the wind, so I set my camera with a shutter speed of 63 seconds and created the photo below which is full of motion blur both with the trees in the background and with the flowers and grass in the foreground. There is also a touch of blur to the boulder, not because the wind affected it at all, but likely because even on a sturdy tripod the wind was able to vibrate my camera just a bit.

A 63 second exposure to embrace motion blur caused by the wind.

When I recently began processing these photos I decided to combine them, keeping the long exposure motion blur on the background trees and grass, but showing the shorter exposure and slightly more crisp foreground of flowers and boulder, resulting in the first photo up top.

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