Photo Feature Archives
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Elyse photographs a shelf containing soda bottles at a Food Lion store in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.Featured: July 26, 2024Photographed: March 11, 2022 |
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Signage at the terminus of Dorsey Avenue, a frontage road for Dorchester Road, near the intersection with Leeds Avenue in North Charleston, South Carolina.Featured: July 19, 2024Photographed: April 18, 2024 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "A proper visit to Charleston…" in the Journal. |
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Cell phone tower in Hot Springs, Virginia, disguised so as to somewhat resemble a tree.Featured: July 12, 2024Photographed: March 21, 2024 |
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Aerial view of the Roanoke Star, atop Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia.Featured: July 5, 2024Photographed: June 13, 2024 |
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The Cathedral of Learning, a 42-story building on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.Featured: June 28, 2024Photographed: June 2, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend trip to Pittsburgh…" in the Journal. |
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West corridor at District 40, formerly Frederick Towne Mall, a partially abandoned former shopping mall in Frederick, Maryland.Featured: June 22, 2024Photographed: June 21, 2024 |
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The Newport News Middle Ground Light, a lighthouse in the waters of Hampton Roads in Virginia.Featured: June 14, 2024Photographed: May 31, 2024 |
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Cumulonimbus cloud near Poolesville, Maryland.Featured: June 7, 2024Photographed: June 6, 2024 |
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A brick smokestack in downtown Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, retrofitted as a cellular tower.Featured: May 31, 2024Photographed: May 16, 2024 |
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A very rusted "no parking" sign at the former Verona Elementary School in Augusta County, Virginia.Featured: May 24, 2024Photographed: December 14, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend in Augusta County, unsupervised…" in the Journal. |
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A road runs through a section of Michaux State Forest in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on a very foggy day.Featured: May 17, 2024Photographed: May 10, 2024 |
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A train waits at the platform at Frankford Transportation Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to beginning a trip on SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line.Featured: May 10, 2024Photographed: May 11, 2023 |
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Overhead view of the MSC Manzanillo as it travels up the Cooper River in Charleston, South Carolina.Featured: May 3, 2024Photographed: April 18, 2024 Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "A proper visit to Charleston…" in the Journal. |
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Forest during a controlled burn in McClellanville, South Carolina.Featured: April 26, 2024Photographed: April 19, 2024 |
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The remains of the SS Atlantus, a shipwreck in the waters off of Cape May, New Jersey.Featured: April 19, 2024Photographed: April 5, 2024 Notes: As originally published, the caption incorrectly identified the ship as the USS Atlantus. The error in the ship's prefix was discovered and corrected after the feature had already gone off of the main page. |
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Partial solar eclipse over Greenbelt, Maryland.Featured: April 12, 2024Photographed: April 8, 2024 |
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Yellow blaze marking on a tree for the Gathright Dam overlook trail, in Bath County, Virginia.Featured: April 5, 2024Photographed: March 21, 2024 |
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge, which carried traffic on Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: March 29, 2024Photographed: June 16, 2022 Notes: I admit that it pained me somewhat to rework this caption, largely taken from an earlier photo feature from the same photo shoot, into the past tense. But such is what happens when a container ship drifts into the bridge and causes it to collapse. My condolences to the families of the victims of this disaster. |
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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. |
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Lights over the football field at Paint Branch High School, a public high school in Fairland, Maryland.Featured: March 15, 2024Photographed: March 1, 2024 |
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Vintage fire alarm pull station at 4405 East-West Highway, an office building in Bethesda, Maryland.Featured: March 9, 2024Photographed: August 18, 2023 |
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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. |
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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. |
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A water tower stands over the town of Purcellville, Virginia.Featured: February 16, 2024Photographed: February 15, 2024 |
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Cupola on top of Wilson Hall, on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.Featured: February 9, 2024Photographed: September 13, 2023 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Sunset over Swatara Township, Pennsylvania.Featured: January 12, 2024Photographed: January 5, 2024 |
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Packages of men's underwear in locked cases at the Walmart Supercenter in Ellicott City, Maryland.Featured: January 5, 2024Photographed: April 27, 2023 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Interior of the former JCPenney store at the Fashion Square shopping mall in Charlottesville, Virginia.Featured: December 15, 2023Photographed: December 13, 2023 |
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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 |
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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. |
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The Fabia Schulte, a Singaporean-flagged bulk carrier, moored in Philadelphia.Featured: November 24, 2023Photographed: May 11, 2023 |
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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 |
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Interstate 81 crosses over the Woodrow Wilson Parkway (SR 262) near Staunton, Virginia.Featured: November 10, 2023Photographed: September 15, 2023 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fire alarm pull station in the main lobby at 9400 Livingston Road in Fort Washington, Maryland.Featured: August 25, 2023Photographed: July 12, 2023 |
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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 |
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Gallon-sized jugs of Turkey Hill-branded milk at the Grocery Outlet store in Hagerstown, Maryland.Featured: August 11, 2023Photographed: February 3, 2023 |
