Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock Women's T-Shirt

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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, also called the C&O Canal, operated from 1831 until 1924. It ran parallel to the Potomac River in Maryland, from Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. The total length of the canal is about 185 miles. A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. The locks make a river more easily navigable, or allow a canal to take a more direct line across land that is not level. The C&O canal is now maintained by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, with a trail following the old towpath. This picture was taken from the canal towpath near Great Falls, Maryland, early one beautiful autumn morning.

I guess I've had an off-and-on love affair with photography my whole life. My father was always taking pictures and movies when I was a kid growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1950s-60s, and he gave me my own Kodak Brownie camera when I was around 6 years old. I remember using it to take pictures of family events and a trip to Washington DC, back in 1958. I still have some of the pictures ....... somewhere. Photography moved to the back burner during high school, college, and law school, but I picked it up again after I graduated law school in 1979, moved to Washington DC, and began my legal career with the federal government. Being alone in a new city, I would take my camera wherever I went, and I was soon making my own prints in...