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Photo Essay Blitz Outtakes
Arlington, Virginia
Need a port-a-potty? Give the guy with the rhyming name, "Don's Johns", a call! I first saw this kind of port-a-potty a number of years ago, when they were widening Interstate 66. Gotta love that name...
...and we watch as the herd crosses the street near the Rosslyn Metro Station.
A new building is going up at 1801 N. Lynn Street! Here, workers put this silver-colored facing on the front of the building.
Rain... the one thing that killed the Old Town Alexandria mission. Not to fear, though. Old Town Alexandria was successfully photographed on April 13, 2002.
At Washington National Airport, the State Police were out and about, with their blinkies on in order to have security footage of the curbside.
Look at the size of this pull-station! This is an old version of the classic Edwards pull-station, and it's like four times the size of the current model. For a size comparison, I put my gloved hand next to the pull-station and photographed. Compare this with the photograph below, taken in Potomac Hall with the more recent version of the classic Edwards pull-station that I have in my fire alarm collection, being size-compared with the same hand.
Down in the Pentagon Metro Station, renovations have begun as part of the Pentagon Renovation Program. The walled-off area used to be an entrance to the Pentagon.
This area of the Pentagon is NOT the area damaged on September 11th (that's two sides around the building going left). This is the construction area for the new entrance facility, where rail and bus passengers will go when it's finished to get screened for entry into the Pentagon.
This is part of the Pentagon's new bus station - in memory of all those whose lives were forever changed by the events of September 11, 2001.
Ryan Christie, a friend of mine at JMU, ran into me at Pentagon City Mall, and shot this photo of me with his digital camera. Judging by the hair, I'd been busy!
After taking me to Vienna, this Metro train went OUT OF SERVICE. Richmond, Virginia
Next to the Science Museum, we find a cracker factory! I wondered where the sweet baked smell was coming from...
Where have we seen this FACP before? Answer is that it's the same FACP as is in Potomac Hall...
Rush hour... a tremendous pain in the butt...
And welcome to the Hampton Inn! This was my humble abode for the evening between Richmond and Norfolk.
I was somewhat surprised to see this - the Hampton Inn had a Simplex system installed, yet the smoke detectors in the rooms were Gentex. Curious, indeed...
Meanwhile, down in the lobby, the remote fire alarm annunciator (the FACP was behind the front desk) was indicating that there was a trouble condition on the fire alarm system! Norfolk, Virginia
A ship is visible off in the distance on the bridge-tunnel...
The one thing that everyone at JMU from this area was asking me about was if I got a photo of the whale building. For the record, yes, I did get the whale building, and here it is!
Sea gulls... a sure indication that the ocean was near...
Kind of eerily reminiscent of my fourth floor door decorations, which had a life ring just like this with "Welcome aboard!" beneath it.
The building across the street from the World Trade Center in Norfolk is seen here, still under construction... Charlottesville, VirginiaNOTE: Only one of the photos in this Charlottesville section were taken in Charlottesville, but for the Photo Essay Blitz, they fell under Charlottesville for organizational purposes.
Randi and Katie from Potomac Hall (as well as Joanna, who is not pictured) stopped by to visit me at home! The four of us played The Game of Life.
While running an errand in Harrisonburg, I caught workers putting up the new street signs that got featured in The Breeze in the first issue after Spring Break. I'm afraid this is a much better picture than what was in The Breeze because this shows them actually putting the sign up...
Looking over the scenic overlook on Interstate 64, we find a road snaking through the countryside...
Over at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, workmen paint the door frames that special Omni color...
At my old high school, Mrs. Weekley's signature phrase is still useful in real life. Never forget that "SORRY" DON'T FEED THE BULLDOG!
And speaking of dogs, here's Greta, looking at me quizzically.
"Did you see something, Greta? Go get it!" Roanoke, Virginia
Down the road from the Roanoke Star, the Discovery Center can give you a lot of information about Roanoke!
This electrical box has an interesting paint-job, indeed!
Where to go... where to go...
Can't find your signature Roanoke item? Look no further!
This picture perfectly captures the essence of Sheetz, and what makes Sheetz so desirable. It's kind of like an island of lights, ready to lure you in...
And finally, what trip would be complete without a trip to good old Hooters? Their fries are to DIE for... so good. |
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In the course of shooting 2,408 photos, you occasionally run into those things that just don't fit anywhere else but are still worth a photo. My way of doing things on a photo set is to pretty much take pictures of everything, and then create a photo set out of the best stuff that actually had to do with what you were originally going for. So that makes for a lot of outtakes. Some of it ends up around the site, often in the quote. Other stuff just gets stockpiled - never know when you might be able to use it, like a picture of one of those plastic pink flamingos that you sometimes see on people's lawns that I used in the Archives in 2001-2002. However, with the sheer volume of photos shot in Arlington, Richmond, Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Roanoke, you get a lot more of this than usual. Often this is stuff shot in between destinations, or it was a leading or ending shot that just didn't make the cut. So here's a look into the other stuff I saw...
