Photo Feature Archives
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Fire at the Aggregate Industries quarry off of Piney Meetinghouse Road near Rockville, Maryland.Featured: March 22, 2024Photographed: March 14, 2024 Notes: For more photos of the fire, see "Fire at the quarry…" in the Journal. |
Lights over the football field at Paint Branch High School, a public high school in Fairland, Maryland.Featured: March 15, 2024Photographed: March 1, 2024 |
Vintage fire alarm pull station at 4405 East-West Highway, an office building in Bethesda, Maryland.Featured: March 9, 2024Photographed: August 18, 2023 |
Overhead view of a Honda HR-V at Willett Street Industries in Passaic, New Jersey.Featured: March 1, 2024Photographed: April 14, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "A weekend in New York…" in the Journal. |
Railroad crossbuck near the intersection of Boulevard de la Cité and Boulevard Maloney in Gatineau, Quebec.Featured: February 23, 2024Photographed: May 18, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this visit, see "Ottawa" in the Journal. |
A water tower stands over the town of Purcellville, Virginia.Featured: February 16, 2024Photographed: February 15, 2024 |
Cupola on top of Wilson Hall, on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.Featured: February 9, 2024Photographed: September 13, 2023 |
Ross Dress for Less in Oxon Hill, Maryland, housed in a building that was originally designed to hold an Old Navy store.Featured: February 2, 2024Photographed: January 22, 2024 |
The PPL Building in Allentown, Pennsylvania, viewed from overhead.Featured: January 26, 2024Photographed: January 17, 2024 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "Nothing like making a weekend trip to New York and getting sick while there…" in the Journal. |
A race car driver takes paying customers on a thrill ride in a Dodge Charger at the Chrysler Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.Featured: January 19, 2024Photographed: July 15, 2023 |
Sunset over Swatara Township, Pennsylvania.Featured: January 12, 2024Photographed: January 5, 2024 |
Packages of men's underwear in locked cases at the Walmart Supercenter in Ellicott City, Maryland.Featured: January 5, 2024Photographed: April 27, 2023 |
Port bow nameplate on the SS United States, an ocean liner moored at Pier 82 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Featured: December 30, 2023Photographed: December 29, 2023 |
Bonfire at a home in Fort Washington, Maryland.Featured: December 22, 2023Photographed: December 8, 2023 Notes: Before anyone remarks that you're not supposed to burn cardboard in a fire pit, I know. I had nothing to do with the making or maintenance of this fire. I just photographed. |
Interior of the former JCPenney store at the Fashion Square shopping mall in Charlottesville, Virginia.Featured: December 15, 2023Photographed: December 13, 2023 |
Street pylon in front of Potomac Yard, a Washington Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia that opened in May 2023.Featured: December 8, 2023Photographed: December 7, 2023 |
Demonstrators hold up signs in the street during Funk the War 3, a demonstration held in downtown Washington, DC in protest of the Iraq War, organized by Students for a Democratic Society.Featured: December 1, 2023Photographed: March 19, 2008 Notes: For more photos from this event, see "Funk the War 3" in Life and Times. This photo feature was chosen to match the December 2023 splash photo, where I am posing for a photo with this same photo at the Kent State Visitor Center. |
The Fabia Schulte, a Singaporean-flagged bulk carrier, moored in Philadelphia.Featured: November 24, 2023Photographed: May 11, 2023 |
Sign denoting the presence of a speed hump in an alley west of North Oakley Avenue in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Featured: November 17, 2023Photographed: November 4, 2023 |
Interstate 81 crosses over the Woodrow Wilson Parkway (SR 262) near Staunton, Virginia.Featured: November 10, 2023Photographed: September 15, 2023 |
The Centennial Flame, a monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa that commemmorated the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation.Featured: November 3, 2023Photographed: May 19, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "I went to Ottawa..." in the Journal. |
Former Sheetz gas station and convenience store in Breezewood, Pennsylvania. This facility was abandoned after Sheetz relocated to a new facility to the west of this property.Featured: October 27, 2023Photographed: May 31, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "A weekend trip to Pittsburgh…" in the Journal. |
Aisles 24 and 26 in the self-service furniture area at the IKEA store in College Park, Maryland.Featured: October 20, 2023Photographed: October 19, 2023 |
Former CARTA bus 3426, a New Flyer D35HF, parked in a shopping center in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.Featured: October 13, 2023Photographed: October 6, 2023 Notes: For more information about this adventure, see "I can’t believe that we went to South Carolina…" in the Journal. |
A person looks at their phone while riding in an elevator in New York City.Featured: October 6, 2023Photographed: April 12, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend in New York…" in the Journal. And yes, the person in the photo is Elyse. |
An exit sign hangs from a metal beam at the partially-demolished Reynolds Wrap Distribution Center building in Richmond, Virginia.Featured: September 29, 2023Photographed: March 31, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Making a weekend trip out of a delivery…" in the Journal. |
Shopping cart for Steve & Barry's University Sportswear amongst other remaining debris following demolition work at the former Staunton Mall site in Augusta County, Virginia.Featured: September 15, 2023Photographed: September 14, 2023 |
Water tower at Willett Street Industries, a small industrial park in Passaic, New Jersey.Featured: September 9, 2023Photographed: April 14, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend in New York…" in the Journal. |
A very faded stop sign is tagged with graffiti along Cabot Boulevard in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.Featured: September 2, 2023Photographed: January 6, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A solo adventure up north…" in the Journal. |
Fire alarm pull station in the main lobby at 9400 Livingston Road in Fort Washington, Maryland.Featured: August 25, 2023Photographed: July 12, 2023 |
Railroad bridge carrying CSX tracks over the Rappahannock River between the city of Fredericksburg and Stafford County in Virginia.Featured: August 18, 2023Photographed: August 17, 2023 |
Gallon-sized jugs of Turkey Hill-branded milk at the Grocery Outlet store in Hagerstown, Maryland.Featured: August 11, 2023Photographed: February 3, 2023 |
Aura, a mixed-use skyscraper at the intersection of Yonge and Gerrard Streets in downtown Toronto.Featured: August 4, 2023Photographed: July 27, 2023 |
A Bombardier CRJ-200LR jet operated by Air Wisconsin for American Eagle departs Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.Featured: July 28, 2023Photographed: November 15, 2016 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Trying my hand at planespotting…" in the Journal. |
Wheelock MT fire alarm horn/strobe at the Best Buy store in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: July 21, 2023Photographed: December 8, 2022 |
Escalator at the northeast end of Tanglewood Mall, an enclosed shopping center in Roanoke County, Virginia.Featured: July 14, 2023Photographed: December 15, 2022 |
The crown of the Chrysler Building, a skyscraper in New York City, in late afternoon.Featured: July 7, 2023Photographed: April 13, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend in New York…" in the Journal. |
Smoke from Canadian wildfires forms a haze over the skyline of Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: June 30, 2023Photographed: June 29, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Smoke Over Baltimore" in Photography. |
Animal face drawn with marker on a concrete wall at the Huntington Metro station in Fairfax County, Virginia.Featured: June 23, 2023Photographed: May 7, 2023 |
501 South 5th Street, an office building in downtown Richmond, Virginia.Featured: June 16, 2023Photographed: March 31, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Making a weekend trip out of a delivery…" in the Journal. |
Street sign at the western intersection of Forbes Avenue and Market Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Featured: June 9, 2023Photographed: June 1, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "A weekend trip to Pittsburgh…" in the Journal. |
Former AT&T Long Lines microwave relay tower in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania.Featured: June 2, 2023Photographed: May 5, 2023 |
The flag of Canada flies in front of the West Block, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.Featured: May 26, 2023Photographed: May 19, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "I went to Ottawa..." in the Journal. |
The uppermost levels of a tower at the Argos USA cement manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia.Featured: May 19, 2023Photographed: May 12, 2023 |
Railcar 1072 leads a four-car train at Lindenwold, a PATCO station in Camden County, New Jersey.Featured: May 13, 2023Photographed: May 11, 2023 |
Sign reading, "It needs to be fixed," placed on a shopping cart retriever machine at the Target store in Germantown, Maryland.Featured: May 5, 2023Photographed: February 23, 2023 |
Mall-facing facade of LifeStorage, formerly the mall entrance for The Bon-Ton, at the York Galleria shopping mall in York, Pennsylvania.Featured: April 28, 2023Photographed: December 30, 2022 Notes: Here is a photo from a similar angle at the end of The Bon-Ton's tenure in the mall. |
A sign reading "TATTOO", used for establishing shots for the Ink Master television series, hangs above a door at Ironbound Studios in Newark, New Jersey.Featured: April 21, 2023Photographed: April 14, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend in New York…" in the Journal. |
A man uses a roller to apply a coat of black paint to the pole holding up a large sign at the Buc-ee's store in Crossville, Tennessee.Featured: April 14, 2023Photographed: October 13, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "Adventures in Tennessee" in the Journal. |
Graffiti painted on the Richmond Floodwall, directed at Mayor Levar Stoney, asking for more affordable housing in the city.Featured: April 7, 2023Photographed: March 31, 2023 |