Some James River Photos

Sunsets at Merry Point

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INTRODUCTION:

The photographs below are of the James River --- mostly at sunset --- and mostly from a point on the shore called Merry Point, in Newport News, Virginia --- looking west, over the river.

(See map at the bottom of this page.)

Description of the area :

Merry Point is on the north side of the James River, several miles from the mouth of the river.

At its mouth, the river empties into the area where the Monitor-Merrimac battle was fought in the Civil War. Just beyond that battle area is the Chesapeake Bay, then the Atlantic Ocean.

The James River is about a mile wide at Merry Point --- so these photos show a lot of water, with the south shore of the river in the distance.

Most of these photographs are looking west from Merry Point, toward the setting sun. But some photos are taken looking up the river --- and some photos are taken looking down the river from Merry Point --- toward the James River lift bridge (on the right) and the Newport News shipyard (on the left).

The shipyard is where aircraft carriers are designed and built. You can see some heavy-lift cranes in the distance. These are a couple of the largest traveling-cranes in the country.

The lift bridge typically opens a couple of times a day, to allow tall ships and barges to travel up/down-river, toward/from Richmond.

As mentioned above, MAPS are at the bottom of the page.

There are also WEB SEARCHES at the bottom of the page, by which to find more photos (by others) of sunsets on the James River, as well as information on the locations mentioned above.

How the photos are presented :

Each photo is shown scaled to a width proportional to the width of your browser window.

Hence, you can change the size of the photos by changing the width of your browser window. (On a 'smartphone', you can do this by changing the orientation of the phone from 'portrait' mode to 'landscape' mode.)

Each photo is a link to a new window (or tab) that shows the image at its natural size. Click on any photo to see it in a separate window.

Close (or minimize) the separate window(s) to access this window again.

If you hold the mouse cursor over a photo, a small pop-up 'balloon' will provide a brief description of the photo, with the date-taken. (These pop-ups should work in most web browsers.)

Most of the photos are medium- to high-resolution --- more than 600 pixels wide.

The most recent of the sunset photos (that is, the photos facing to the west) are shown first.

Toward the bottom of this page are photos taken at Merry Point facing south (down river), north (up river), and east (landward).

Below are photos looking SOUTH from Merry Point
--- toward the James River bridge (on the right) and
the Newport News shipyard (on the left) ---
most recent photos first :

The photo point of most of the sunset photos is
to the left of the photo above --- on the
shore, between the boat lift in the background
and the old dock posts extending to the right,
in front of that boat lift.

Here are some photos looking NORTH (up river)
or INLAND from Merry Point, the point where
most of the sunset photos were taken.

There is a small lake, just east (landward)
of the point where I took the photos.
The lake empties into the river near the 'photo point'.
The lake is shown in the photo above and the photo below.



This map shows the point from which most
of these sunset photos were taken.

The point is circled by a small black ellipse
--- just above label "Merry Point" on the map.

The battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac
was fought in the area just south of the
"Newport News" and "Hampton" labels.

To the right of the "Hampton" label is
the Chesapeake Bay. And to the right
of that (out of the picture, to the right
of highway 13) is the Atlantic Ocean.

FOR MORE PHOTOS of this area
(taken by other people) --- AND
FOR MORE INFORMATION on the area:

It may be a long time (years or never) before I get back to this page to add more photos, so here are some links to WEB SEARCHES for more photos of the James River --- especially sunsets.

WEB SEARCH on keywords
james river virginia pictures

WEB SEARCH on keywords
james river sunset photos

WEB SEARCH on keywords
james river images sunsets newport news

Also, try the Wikipedia - 'James River' page, and follow links from that page.

Or try the Wikipedia - 'Newport News, Virginia' page, and follow links from that page.

Or try the Wikipedia - 'Hampton Roads' page, and follow links from that page.

Or try the Wikipedia - 'Battle of Hampton Roads' page, and follow links from that page.

Or try the Wikipedia - 'Chesapeake Bay' page, and follow links from that page.

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Page history:

Page was created 2006 Aug 21.

Page was changed 2008 Dec 28.
(Order of pictures was changed.)

Page was changed 2020 Dec 18.
(Added css and javascript to try to handle text-size for smartphones, esp. in portrait orientation. Specified the width of images in proportion to the width of the browser window. Changed some text accordingly. Added WEB SEARCHES for more photos.)