{"id":6281,"date":"2023-04-22T23:34:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T08:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:02:59","slug":"paul-gillis-d24-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=6281","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gillis d24 submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Willow in the West Virginia Hills<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6279\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Willow-in-the-W.-Va.-Hills-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Willow-in-the-W.-Va.-Hills-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Willow-in-the-W.-Va.-Hills-800x410.jpg 800w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Willow-in-the-W.-Va.-Hills-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Willow-in-the-W.-Va.-Hills-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Willow-in-the-W.-Va.-Hills.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This crooked old tree is near the Smokehole Gorge in Pendleton County, W. Va. It&#8217;s right behind an old farmhouse that my caving club has used as a field house for many years, about a mile up a very rough gravel lane from the South Branch of the Potomac. All 4 of these slides were taken with my TL-120-1 on Provia 100.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Hillside Shack<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6276\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hillside-Shack-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hillside-Shack-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hillside-Shack-800x405.jpg 800w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hillside-Shack-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hillside-Shack-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Hillside-Shack.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Not really a shack, but a storage shed, very close to the willow tree above.\u00a0 Late afternoon in the fall.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Neptune Fountain<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6277\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Neptune-Fountain-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Neptune-Fountain-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Neptune-Fountain-800x403.jpg 800w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Neptune-Fountain-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Neptune-Fountain-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Neptune-Fountain.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>In my opinion, Washington&#8217;s most impressive fountain.\u00a0 Officially called &#8220;The Court of Neptune&#8221;, it is in front of the Library of Congress&#8217; Thomas Jefferson Building, facing the U.S. Capitol.\u00a0 The bronzes were sculpted by Roland Hinton Perry, and carvings on the masonry of the grotto were done by Albert Weinert.\u00a0 Perry was inspired by the Trevi Fountain in Rome.\u00a0 It was finished in 1898, shortly after the Jefferson Building opened.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>A Nereid Riding a Hippocamp<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6278\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nereid-Riding-a-Hippocamp-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nereid-Riding-a-Hippocamp-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nereid-Riding-a-Hippocamp-800x409.jpg 800w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nereid-Riding-a-Hippocamp-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nereid-Riding-a-Hippocamp-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nereid-Riding-a-Hippocamp.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>One of the two sea nymphs riding mythic sea horses in the Neptune Fountain.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willow in the West Virginia Hills This crooked old tree is near the Smokehole Gorge in Pendleton County, W. Va. It&#8217;s right behind an old farmhouse that my caving club has used as a field house for many years, about a mile up a very rough gravel lane from the South Branch of the Potomac. 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