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The Virginia City Presbyterian Church along Highway 58 in Virginia was built in 1895 by coal camp residents and is the only surviving structure from the once bustling mining community of Virginia City. The structure also served as the first schoolhouse for Virginia City.

At an early age growing up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, I was fascinated with photography but was never able to explore its possibilities with the little instamatic camera that I had. It really wasn't until 1994 as I prepared to go overseas as a volunteer with a Christian educational team in Russia that I invested in my first film SLR camera just days before leaving. Having no formal photography training, I taught myself how to use it by trial and error (lots of it!). The best thing I had going for me was that I had learned some basic principles of art composition back in my Fine Arts class in college and as editor of my college yearbook. Over several years of working professionally as an editor with Christian publications, I...