Monday, July 6, 2009

Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drums From July 4th, 2009


Starting at 8:15 PM prior to the fireworks in Colonial Williamsburg was the Fife and Drum corp playing on stage performing a 1 hour show. The show started with the Junior corp followed by the elite members of the senior corp and then the entire senior corp. At the end of the show, the fireworks began. This year was much better coordinated than previous years. We filmed all but two tunes due to having to change batteries and cards. We are working on hosting everything we captured as fast as we can process it. Here is one of the clips from that set.

This is the Junior corp on stage.

4th of July Fireworks From Colonial Williamsburg



Hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. We went over to Colonial Williamsburg this year and they did a much better job than in previous years. The fireworks were the standard 15 minutes before the grand finale, but then they had a surprise for everyone. A second grand finale started after a few minutes. Quite the surprise. After that was over, there was a third grand finale. When you thought that was over, they just kept it up. We got the 3 grand finale's on video and have them here for you.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Gothic Rock, New Web Site, Discover Gothic Metal

Click Here for one of our latest sites. We like all kinds of music. Heck we will even admit enjoying a day of Polka. This new site though is a Gothic Rock Site. Something a bit different for us, but what we like about Gothic Rock is the combination of classical music and even opera like vocals mixed with rock and roll. The band we have been featuring on this new site is Nighwish. Gothic Rock has not made a big hit in the US yet but it has been raging all over Europe and Asia for years. Here is a sample of the type of videos on our new site. It's not for everyone. But it's pretty cool all the same.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Monday, June 29, 2009

Sunset Down At Gloucester Point Beach


Here is a photo we shot tonight. Sunset at the Gloucester Point beach. The photo has not been edited at all save compressing the image to a smaller size for quicker upload.

Belle Mount Vineyards Rep Says Northern Neck Wineries Not Worth Our Time


While we were at the incredibly boring wine festival in Kilmarnock, we had a chance to talk to one of the reps for the Belle Mount Vineyards who was very convincing that the Northern Neck Wineries were not worth our time. We believe him as far as Belle Mount goes then. He claimed to speak with reasonable authority for the other winery owners in the Northern Neck as well. Well, there we do not believe him.

We had a two fold purpose for visiting Kilmarnock today. One was to check out how the area puts on events, which didn't even hit lackluster, and to stir up some interest on our upcoming project of an on line driving tour of wineries. Here is the great thing about our on line tour, it costs the owners nothing but some of their time to allow us to photograph their winery and also to give us some history and background about the winery. We designed a flyer to hand out in order to start the interest. Well we never made it past Belle Mount as the rep was not capable of listening to us and and could not see past one part of our flyer. He proved to not be worth our time. The event was not worth our time as it was a major disappointment.

So instead of talking to the few other wineries that were at the event, we just left in disgust. So now we will contact the other wineries of the Northern Neck and see if they are interested in free promotions and if they want to be included in our tour listings. Belle Mount will not be on our list from this point forward.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Kilmarnock Wine Festival, Boring Times

We decided to take a small trip over to the Kilmarnock Wine Festival today, June 27th, 2009. It was truly a very boring event. Hardly anyone there on either the vendor side or the customer side. If you were not aware of this event, there was no loss in that. We've seen several events held in Kilmarnock and let's say this one was right up there with the rest. Kilmarnock is a pretty area, but their events are not worth the time of day.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Historic St Luke's Church, English Chamber Organ



We have created another slide show. This one is about an incredible English Chamber Organ from the 17th century. This particular piece is housed at the Historic St Luke's Church in Smithfield, Virginia. This organ still works but has less than 100 plays left to it. It takes 3 people to play this piece. Historic St Luke's is trying to raise about $64,000.00 for the restoration and replication of this organ. We are asking those of you who can afford to make contributions to the fund to please do so. To learn more about the English chamber organ and where to send your much needed donations please CLICK HERE for the link.

If you send a donation to them and send us a copy of the receipt showing proof of the donation, we will send you a full size picture file of the organ that you can use to print out or take to a photo lab and have a picture printed to a size up to 16 by 20 inch prints. We maintain the copyright to the work, but we are allowing this with a proven donation to Historic St Luke's church. Thank you.