Photo Feature Archives
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View along Fifth Avenue in New York City, facing southeast towards the Empire State Building.Featured: March 31, 2023Photographed: January 6, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A solo adventure up north…" in the Journal. |
Interior of the Blue Ridge Tunnel, which historically served as a rail tunnel, carrying train traffic beneath Rockfish Gap between Augusta and Nelson Counties in Virginia. The tunnel reopened as a walking trail in 2020.Featured: March 24, 2023Photographed: March 16, 2023 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Walking through Afton Mountain…" in the Journal. |
Signage for the junction with Interstate 40 on Genesis Road in Crossville, Tennessee.Featured: March 17, 2023Photographed: October 13, 2022 |
The American flag flies over Frederick, Maryland in late afternoon.Featured: March 10, 2023Photographed: October 5, 2022 |
Sign reading, "You owe me a leaf spring," with an arrow pointing at a pothole on Montgomery Village Avenue in Montgomery Village, Maryland, presumably erected by someone whose vehicle was damaged after driving into said pothole.Featured: March 3, 2023Photographed: November 10, 2022 Notes: For those wondering, after I photographed the pothole, I reported the pothole to the county, along with the illegal sign. The pothole was soon repaired, and the sign was removed. |
A heavily weathered reserved parking sign at the Apple Valley Square shopping center in Winchester, Virginia.Featured: February 24, 2023Photographed: October 12, 2022 |
The George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia, viewed at sunset.Featured: February 17, 2023Photographed: February 15, 2023 Notes: I got this photo while I was messing around with some features on my DSLR. This is the "toy camera" function. |
Street pylon outside of Ashburn station, the western terminus of the Silver Line on the Washington Metro system.Featured: February 10, 2023Photographed: November 18, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "You’re taking me for a ride…" in the Journal. |
Graffiti pertaining to religion on a restroom stall partition at the Weis grocery store in Dundalk, Maryland.Featured: February 3, 2023Photographed: December 29, 2022 |
Streetlight over the Michael J. Doyle Fishing Pier in Camden, New Jersey.Featured: January 27, 2023Photographed: October 4, 2021 |
The Dr. James D. Hoskins and H.B. Jarnagin Bridge, which carries State Route 92 across Douglas Lake in Dandridge, Tennessee.Featured: January 20, 2023Photographed: October 15, 2022 |
Tom's Restaurant, located in the Morningside neighborhood of Manhattan, at the intersection of West 122nd Street and Broadway.Featured: January 13, 2023Photographed: January 6, 2023 Notes: The south facade of this restaurant featured prominently in the Seinfeld television series. |
Cobblestones form the surface of Cary Street in Richmond, Virginia's Shockoe Bottom neighborhood.Featured: January 6, 2023Photographed: March 10, 2003 |
A section of the salesfloor at the Walmart Supercenter in Winchester, Virginia is cordoned off for construction work, likely to replace a refrigerated case.Featured: December 30, 2022Photographed: September 1, 2022 |
A notepad containing a shopping list lays abandoned on top of a counter at the Harris Teeter grocery store in Olney, Maryland.Featured: December 22, 2022Photographed: September 27, 2022 |
Connector for a hose at a fish cleaning table on a dock near the intersection of 3rd Street and Chicago Avenue in Ocean City, Maryland.Featured: December 15, 2022Photographed: September 9, 2022 |
Survey measuring point on the top of a retaining wall on Coles Run Dam in Stuarts Draft, Virginia.Featured: December 9, 2022Photographed: June 4, 2022 |
A Jeep Renegade is parked on the shoulder along westbound Interstate 40 at the border between Roane and Cumberland Counties in eastern Tennessee.Featured: December 1, 2022Photographed: October 13, 2022 Notes: This Jeep Renegade was our rental car, which we took on our trip to Tennessee following the untimely demise of my HR-V in an accident a few days prior. We stopped here in order to get photos of and with the sign denoting that we were entering the Central time zone. |
The Wilkes Tunnel, which carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic beneath Wilkes Street between Royal and Lee Streets in Alexandria, Virginia.Featured: November 25, 2022Photographed: November 23, 2022 |
Faded and cracked stop sign at the Apple Valley Square shopping center in Winchester, Virginia.Featured: November 18, 2022Photographed: October 12, 2022 |
Overhead view of the intersection between Montgomery Village Avenue, Christopher Avenue, and Lost Knife Road in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: November 9, 2022Photographed: November 1, 2022 Notes: This is the intersection where my HR-V was t-boned on October 9, 2022. In this orientation, I was traveling from the bottom of the photo towards the top, and the striking vehicle came from the left. |
Graffiti message that reads, "Every day is a bonus," on a concrete wall in Crossville, Tennessee.Featured: November 2, 2022Photographed: October 13, 2022 |
Storm clouds arrive over Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Featured: October 27, 2022Photographed: July 28, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A trip to New Jersey with Elyse and Woomy…" in the Journal. |
A chain is padlocked around an entrance gate at the West Falls Church Metro station after the system has closed for the night.Featured: October 19, 2022Photographed: September 11, 2022 |
A 2018 Honda HR-V, parked outside Staunton Mall following a drone flight around the property.Featured: October 12, 2022Photographed: August 11, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "An unexpected Staunton Mall update…" in the Journal. |
A Silver Line train prepares to depart Ballston-MU station in Arlington, Virginia on its way towards Washington, DC.Featured: October 5, 2022Photographed: September 24, 2022 |
Adopt-a-Highway sign placed in honor of Paul Jones along Delaware Route 1 in Bethany Beach, Delaware.Featured: September 28, 2022Photographed: September 9, 2022 |
Homemade road signs and a reflector attached to a tree along Route 641 in Roxbury, Pennsylvania, warning drivers to slow down due to a hidden driveway nearby.Featured: September 22, 2022Photographed: July 15, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A day up in Pennsylvania..." in the Journal. |
Highway sign promoting industrial sites in Augusta County in the middle of a field near Interstate 81 in Verona, Virginia.Featured: September 14, 2022Photographed: September 13, 2022 |
Clouds over the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey.Featured: September 9, 2022Photographed: Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A trip to New Jersey with Elyse and Woomy…" in the Journal. |
Grosvenor Tower, an apartment building on Grosvenor Place in North Bethesda, Maryland.Featured: September 3, 2022Photographed: August 26, 2022 |
Traffic signal at an intersection in Derwood, Maryland.Featured: August 26, 2022Photographed: July 14, 2022 |
Woomy the octopus sits on porch swing at a house in Roanoke, Virginia.Featured: August 19, 2022Photographed: December 10, 2021 |
The Belk wing at Staunton Mall, undergoing demolition as part of a redevelopment of the property.Featured: August 12, 2022Photographed: August 11, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "An unexpected Staunton Mall update…" in the Journal. |
Autocall fire alarm pull station at the Whole Foods Market store in Towson, Maryland.Featured: August 5, 2022Photographed: June 16, 2022 Notes: The astute observer will notice that these pull stations are identical to ones manufactured by Simplex. Both Autocall and Simplex are owned by the same parent company, Tyco. Additionally, for more photos from this day, see this album on Flickr. |
The twin spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which carry Interstate 295 across the Delaware River between New Castle, Delaware and Pennsville Township, New Jersey.Featured: July 29, 2022Photographed: July 28, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A trip to New Jersey with Elyse and Woomy…" in the Journal. |
United States Geological Survey benchmark outside of a small store in Roxbury, Pennsylvania.Featured: July 22, 2022Photographed: July 15, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A day up in Pennsylvania..." in the Journal. |
Bus stop flags for Metrobus and Ride On routes near the intersection of Nicholson Lane and Nebel Street in Rockville, Maryland.Featured: July 15, 2022Photographed: July 14, 2022 |
Staunton Reservoir, a small lake in the George Washington National Forest near Churchville, Virginia. This reservoir functions as the source of drinking water for the nearby city of Staunton.Featured: July 8, 2022Photographed: June 3, 2022 |
Flags for the United States and the state of New Jersey fly from a flagpole at the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Featured: July 1, 2022Photographed: January 29, 2021 |
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, which carries Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: June 24, 2022Photographed: June 16, 2022 |
Sign for the Ward Plaza shopping center in Winchester, Virginia.Featured: June 18, 2022Photographed: June 17, 2022 Notes: This subject previously appeared as the photo feature on June 20, 2019. |
The container ship Ever Forward, aground in the Chesapeake Bay near Pasadena, Maryland.Featured: June 11, 2022Photographed: March 25, 2022 |
Nutritional information printed in Turkish on the cap of a bottle of Pepsi.Featured: June 3, 2022Photographed: May 20, 2022 |
Stained glass in a corner stairwell at the Mormon Temple in Kensington, Maryland.Featured: May 27, 2022Photographed: April 28, 2022 |
Sign for CoStar on the side of 501 South 5th Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia.Featured: May 20, 2022Photographed: April 16, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "A weekend trip to Richmond…" in the Journal. |
Bagel dyed to match the colors of the Maryland state flag in honor of Maryland Day, which commemorates the date that the first European settlers landed in what is now Maryland.Featured: May 13, 2022Photographed: March 29, 2022 |
Empty floor inside an office building in downtown Washington, DC.Featured: May 6, 2022Photographed: May 5, 2022 |
Room 0212 at Zane Showker Hall, a building on the campus of James Madison University.Featured: April 29, 2022Photographed: March 10, 2022 Notes: Prior to the renovation of Zane Showker Hall in the early 2020s, this room was numbered G5. |
Railroad crossing sign in an industrial area of Hopewell, Virginia.Featured: April 22, 2022Photographed: April 15, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "A weekend trip to Richmond…" in the Journal. |