My Photographs

All pictures here were taken by and copyright © by Thomas Faulkner, Durham, NC. Used by permission. You can view and buy many of my photographs in sizes suitable to hanging at WallsLovePicture.com. The 36"x26" size is the most popular.

 

More of my photographs:

 

Pilot Mountain

 

 

Fish Pond at Duke Gardens

 

 

Japanese Tea House, Duke Gardens, Durham, NC

 

 

Blue Ridge Parkway Pictures.

 

Duke Gardens Pictures

 

 

 

July, 2005

Thomas the Tank Engine visits the

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad

 

 

Tuckasegee River between

Dillsboro and Bryson City, North Carolina

 

 

 

 

June, 2005

Mabry Mill, Virginia

 

 

Under a Bridge

 

 

 

May, 2005

Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina

Rock and Rail Fence with Mountain View

 

 

Bear Island, NC

 

 

Eno River Dam, Durham, NC

 

 

May, 2004

 

A Small Brook

The small brook at the exit of the Glenn Cove Mill Pond

 

 

Glen Cove Mill Pond

Three local children enjoy "not-swimming" in the pond.

Since swimming is not permitted on the Parkway, they would have had to have been wading.

Taken in early May at milepost 230

 

 

Milepost 216

Just a typical view along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Milepost 216 is just North of the NC, VA line.

 

 

View of the Piedmont from Milepost 204

The elevation below is 1000 ft. The elevation here is 2900 ft. Milepost 204

 

 

Mt. Airy Granite

Mt. Airy Granite

The white patch dimly visible in the distance is the Mt. Airy Granite Quarry. Largest of it's type in the United States. From it came the piece of granite below the sign. Typically Feldspar and Quartz with a sprinkling of Black Biotite Mica. This granite is widely used in construction of Mausoleums, Statues, Buildings, and Bridges. The picture was taken from Granite Quarry Overlook. Elevation 3015' Milepost 203

 

 

Pilot Mountain, NC

Pilot Mountain, NC for which the town of Pilot Mountain is named and which was called Mt. Pilot in the Andy Griffith show Mayberry.The pictures was taken from the overlook on NC 52 north of Winston-Salem, NC and is the view looking north

 

 

 

April, 2004

Blue Ridge Parkway Photos

Cool Spring Baptist Church Sign on the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

Cool Spring Baptist Church on the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

Jesse Brown's cabin on the Blue Ridge Parkway with spring house in the background. Cool Spring Baptist Church is to the left.