Photo Feature Archives
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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 |
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 |