News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
SG (Steve) Atkinson, Eastern Shore Photographer and Publisher of ChesaDel Crier, announces three Wall Calendars of his photographs. A 16-month 2021-22, “Chesapeake Country Roads”, and two 12 month 2022, “Chesapeake Country Roads – Mid-Shore”, and “Kent County in Pictures”. The calendars are published by ShoreToBeFun and are printed and sold through Lulu.com, an online self-publishing […]
Continue ReadingIn April of 2021 photographer Steve Atkinson began a new photographic project, Chesapeake Country Roads. Now he is announcing the publication of a 16-month Wall Calendar of these photographs. Most of the photographs were taken in Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties. The calendar can be purchased at the Website ChesapeakeCountryRoads.com/Calendar. Even though he had been […]
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I live in Kent County and of all the places I’ve gone on the Delmarva Peninsula it’s where I learned my craft and taken the most photos. So when I decided to do Cards, it was a natural that one of my first sets would be of “Scenes of Kent County, MD”. “Heron on the […]
Continue ReadingI love to photograph Abandon Barns. I don’t go onto the property, although I wish I could get up-close to many. The photographs are shot from the public road. This one I call “Returning to Nature”. Since getting this shot, the barn has been taken down, now only the silo remains as a lone beacon […]
Continue ReadingOne of the many common scenes along the shores of the Rivers and Bays of the the Delmarva Peninsula are sailboats. Some are at private docks and others like this photo are docked at marinas. This is one of many of my Delmarva Scenes that I have on Greeting Cards. Currently there are six (sets) […]
Continue ReadingWhen you are driving, do you notice the churches on the Delmarva. Many of them have been around since the 19th Century. This one is in the small Kent County, MD Village of Still Pond. Old churches have a beauty of their own. When you look at the workmenship that has been put into these […]
Continue ReadingIt’s Labor Day, September 5, 1938. President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Denton, MD. Their is a marker on the spot, across from the Court House, that he gave his speech. The photo is from one of my visits to Denton in 2019. More information on President Roosevelt’s visit to Denton and MD Eastern Shore is […]
Continue ReadingBeginning in the evening of August 30, 1814, Maryland Militia and British Troop meet in battle on Caulk’s Field near the town of Fairlee, then called Bel Air, in Kent County Maryland. The War of 1812 battle was a victory for the American at a time that a victory was desperately needed. The burning of […]
Continue ReadingEaston, the county site of Talbot County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has been involved lately in controversy. In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a movement to install statues to those who fought for the Confederacy. The Talbot Boys statue was one of those. For a number of years there has been […]
Continue ReadingEvery once in a while you’ll go somewhere and see a sight that really doesn’t make sense. This was the case with these steps in Betterton that really seem to go nowhere. Well they do actually lead into the town’s community park, but the sidewalk just end. I just found out that on the location […]
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