Virginia Impressions
photography by Charles Gurche
published by Farcountry Press
- Rich, full-color landscape photographs from all around the Old Dominion make this an excellent souvenir or remembrance.
Virginia's varied landscapes rise from the tidewater area on the Atlantic Ocean through the rolling Piedmont to the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Valley of Virginia, and up into the Appalachian Mountains, providing rich subjects for the excellent photographer Charles Gurche, whose eye always is out for the historical buildings along the way.
80 pages, 9 1/8'' x 8 1/8'', 71 color photos, 50 softcovers per case, Smythe-sewn
softcover
ISBN 10: 1560371935
ISBN 13: 9781560371939
$12.95
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| Virginia Impressions |
| "Looking out over the gardens of Stratford, a restored working colonial plantation that dates from the 1730s and was home to four generations of the Lee family; brothers Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot signed the Declaration of Independence, and future Confederate general Robert E. Lee was born here."
-from page 5 "Arlington National Cemetery honors veterans of United States wars, and includes the Marine Corps memorial that portrays World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima in the South Pacific."
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Charles Gurche is one of the United States' foremost nature and landscape photographers. His work has appeared in numerous calendars and magazines, including Audubon, National Geographic, Natural History, Outside, and in numerous books on the Midwest and Northwest. He has photographed for Kodak, the Sierra Club, Smithsonian Books, and the National Park Service. Gurche has won awards from the Roger Tory Peterson Institute and the Society of Professional Journalists. |