I was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...

Yes, Luxembourg is a tiny country, but I wish I’d spent more than an evening there. In Europe, if you are stuck at the airport hotel,...

Say it with me: Hauptbahnhof. What a great word “train station” is in German. I was recently in Germany for work and I had a free day to...

Hallo Dusseldorf! Near the Kunstpalace. Last week found me in Germany and Luxembourg. Dusseldorf, like many cities affected by World War...

Swank at The Green Mill. RL Fifield 2012. During our recent trip to see Jeremy W.(of Le Cafe Witteveen) and Tina S. in their Chicago...

Cold Spring. RL Fifield 2012. Dr. V and I took the week off a couple of weeks ago, and finally followed through on a plan to go hiking....

In researching the lives of indentured and enslaved women during the 18th century, I’m trying to rebuild their communities, to better...

The Cable Car Power House. RL Fifield, 2009. San Francisco is the city where I started to learn to look, compose, and photograph. I feel...

Hagerstown? Where’s that? I recently attended a living history event at Fort Frederick State Park in Big Pool, Maryland. Restaurants are...

The cracker that didn’t crack – still, it made for good times and great photos. At Havre de Grace, where the Susquehanna turns into the...

More train poetry, spawned by the parade of deteriorating industrial buildings which may be viewed by Amtrak and NJ Transit passengers...

Scads of photographs accompanied Mrs. G. and I on our return from our Lincoln Highway trip. Showing them to her husband, Mr. G’s comment...

After my work trip to St. Tropez in 2008 (see last week’s post) I also stopped for a couple of days in Aix for another job. Here are a...

New Haven: City of Parking Garages. I was just in New Haven to attend the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections...

Barcelona, 2008. For a while, I collected photos of manhole covers during my travels. A manhole cover that says “Acquedotto” looks way...

In November of 2008, during the time of the last presidential election, work took me to southern France. Here’s a clip of my travel...

Last Tuesday, I was somewhere in eastern Ohio. I had access to a car, and nothing to do for eight hours. You got it – it was Lincoln...

Rotterdam Harbor. RL Fifield, 2009. When you mention Rotterdam to so many Europeans, they sigh. Ms. A’s Dutch friend remarked “Well,...

Passing under the lift bridge serving the Norfolk & Southern Railroad at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. RL Fifield, 2012. There’s a...

Siracusa. RL Fifield, 2007. I conjure Siracusa, and bite my lip. It’s wonderful. Layers of civilization created this hauntingly beautiful...