An earthen mausoleum, ancient names called them barrows or burial mounds. Though this is certainly more ornate. Built by an old Charleston family going back to the original settlers from Barbados.
I’ve always thought this spot was perfect to be photographed using the old sepia colors and look.
Charleston, South Carolina.
When I work in B&W my first inclination is the old houses in Charleston. This house was completed only 20 years after the US Revolution. It shouts out ‘Money’.
The plantation economy created so much wealth some people in Charleston couldn’t spend enough. The manor houses competed with each other for attention.
Two things all the big homes had in common were intricate chandeliers and grand sweeping stair cases.
What more could a photographer want !
Working through the photos from a swamp walk the other day I came across this.
It’s always the background that determines if an image works with no color. Shading and contrast makes or breaks it.
This Heron dropped down, after chasing another Great Blue, on the railing of an old wooden bridge ‘to nowhere’. Dark trees gave the contrast needed.
The warning clearly states ‘keep closed in wet locations’. Probably 100% humidity fits the description. Outside outlets must be covered.
However, the Anole can’t read.
Best to look before you touch something out here.
The little ones are hiding on the porch plant pots, the big guys outside in places you least expect them.
Ready to pounce on just about anything, or anyone.
Hard to get B&W with wildlife. This did fit a high key format, so I went with it.
Best viewed large since it’s hard to tell where the borders are LOL.
Pon Pon means ‘a bend in the river’, a Yemassee Native American name for this area near the Edisto river.
In 1706 the Church of England authorized 10 parish, with small outlier Chapels Of Ease for distant plantations and the population. This is the remains of the Pon Pon (St. Bartholomew’s Parish) chapel. It has always been in the middle of nowhere.
The first chapel, and the settlements in the ACE Basin were burned during the 1715 Yamasee War.
Pon Pon Chapel is in Jacksonboro, South Carolina. It was located “on Parker’s Ferry Road, the busy stagecoach thoroughfare that connected Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia.” Today, Parker’s Ferry Road is a dirt road along the south side of a power line right of way, and the ruins of the chapel can be found along this road east of Jacksonboro Road (State Road S-15-40). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. (Wikipedia) Good luck finding it.
What is left now is even very different than my first visit just 6 years ago. In theory a renovation is in the future. Reality says we should photograph what is here, while it’s still here.
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, preached in the wooden building twice on April 24, 1737. That chapel was been plundered and burned.
The cemetery here had been active until sometime in the 1930’s I believe. Most graves still visible here are from the mid 1800’s.
Hurricane Matthew did considerable damage on October 2017.
Note; These photographs were taken July 2022, I want to be sure the current date is included here since these images are also being published by SCPictureProject an ongoing collection of historical records to preserve the history of South Carolina’s historic, natural, and cultural landmarks before they are lost to time.
I heard the bill snap shut long before I realized what he did.
This Great Blue Heron snatched the Dragonfly as it flew by.
“Les Six” (pronounced [le sis]) is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The name, inspired by Mily Balakirev’s The Five, originates in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet in Comœdia. Their music is often seen as a neoclassic reaction against both the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. (Wikipedia)
My interpretation of course, and a little better than velvet dogs playing poker.
