Photo Feature Archives
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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. |
Street light at the intersection of Jennings Chapel Road and Maryland Route 97 in Howard County, Maryland. The purple color of the light is caused by a manufacturing defect in the coating on the bulbs.Featured: April 15, 2022Photographed: April 8, 2022 |
Aerial view of Lakeforest Mall, an enclosed shopping center in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: April 8, 2022Photographed: March 4, 2022 |
Steam emits from a smokestack at the WestRock paper mill in Covington, Virginia.Featured: April 1, 2022Photographed: March 11, 2022 |
Sign for Graffiti Bar, a drinking establishment in the back of Sampan, an Asian restaurant on South 13th Street in Philadelphia's Midtown Village neighborhood.Featured: March 25, 2022Photographed: October 4, 2021 |
The petals of a rose in a prepackaged bouquet at a grocery store in Rockville, Maryland.Featured: March 18, 2022Photographed: March 17, 2022 |
Beets for sale at a farmers' market in downtown Staunton, Virginia.Featured: March 11, 2022Photographed: December 11, 2021 |
Trinity United Methodist Church, at 215 South Sycamore Street in Petersburg, Virginia.Featured: March 5, 2022Photographed: October 15, 2021 |
Stem of a Granny Smith apple at a Giant Food store in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: February 26, 2022Photographed: February 25, 2022 Notes: This is the first photo feature to use content captured with my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra phone. |
A dollop of topical anesthetic on the end of a cotton swab at a dental practice in Washington, DC.Featured: February 18, 2022Photographed: February 17, 2022 Notes: For those wondering, I was having a scaling procedure done on some of my upper teeth, and novocaine is typically given prior to treatment. |
Reassurance marker for US 301 northbound on South Crater Road in Petersburg, Virginia.Featured: February 12, 2022Photographed: October 15, 2021 |
Woomy the octopus holds a can of spray deodorant while sitting on a bed at Hotel 24 South in Staunton, Virginia.Featured: February 4, 2022Photographed: September 9, 2021 |
Statue of Benjamin Franklin atop the cupola of the Franklin County courthouse in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: January 29, 2022Photographed: January 27, 2022 |
View of Atlantic City, New Jersey from offshore, facing west.Featured: January 21, 2022Photographed: January 14, 2022 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "A weekend trip to Atlantic City…" in the Journal. |
Action figure of Leonardo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, at Benny Stivale's, a pizza restaurant in Waynesboro, Virginia.Featured: January 14, 2022Photographed: March 9, 2021 |
Wheelock AS fire alarm horn/strobe in the lobby of a bank in Rockville, Maryland.Featured: January 5, 2022Photographed: December 13, 2021 |
American flag flying in front of the Rosewood Fire Department in Goldsboro, North Carolina.Featured: December 31, 2021Photographed: October 16, 2021 |
Intersection of Baltimore Street, Frederick Street, Carlisle Street, and Broadway in downtown Hanover, Pennsylvania.Featured: December 25, 2021Photographed: December 23, 2021 Notes: Streets are listed in the description starting from the left, going clockwise. |
Ballston-MU station, on the Orange and Silver Lines of the Washington Metro system. View from station mezzanine.Featured: December 17, 2021Photographed: July 8, 2021 |
Sign on the cash register at a Taco Bell in Waynesboro, Virginia, directing patrons to the kiosks to place their orders.Featured: December 10, 2021Photographed: December 9, 2021 |
Crossbuck at a railroad grade crossing on South Maple Avenue in Brunswick, Maryland.Featured: December 3, 2021Photographed: September 30, 2021 |
Interstate 95 at its crossing of the Patuxent River, at the border between Prince George's and Howard Counties in Maryland.Featured: November 26, 2021Photographed: |
Patrizia Luca, a women's clothing store at Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland, housed in a former Microsoft Store space.Featured: November 19, 2021Photographed: June 16, 2021 |
The James River Bridge, which carries traffic from US Route 17, US Route 258, and State Route 32 between Isle of Wight County, Virginia and Newport News, Virginia.Featured: November 12, 2021Photographed: October 19,2021 |
Woomy the octopus sits on a bed in room 532 at Hotel 24 South in downtown Staunton, Virginia.Featured: November 5, 2021Photographed: May 10, 2021 |
Fire-Lite BG-10 pull station at the former Sears store in Westminster, Maryland.Featured: October 29, 2021Photographed: April 5, 2021 |
Vintage Arby's "Big Hat" sign in Colonial Heights, Virginia.Featured: October 22, 2021Photographed: October 15, 2021 |
Rally's store on Denbigh Boulevard in Newport News, Virginia.Featured: October 15, 2021Photographed: April 4, 2020 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "Hampton Roads, Virginia" in Photography, and "A trip out to Hampton Roads…" in the Journal. |
Former Union Pacific locomotive 2104, now owned by now owned by Precision Locomotive Leasing (PNLX), at the Shenandoah Valley Railroad facility in Staunton, Virginia.Featured: October 8, 2021Photographed: March 10, 2021 |
Office building at 8000 Towers Crescent Drive in Tysons Corner, Virginia.Featured: October 1, 2021Photographed: September 24, 2021 Notes: Elyse and I jokingly refer to this building as "The Microsoft Building", because it looks like the kind of building that Microsoft would have offices in. However, Microsoft was not a tenant in this building as of the time that this photo was taken, and to my knowledge, has never leased space here. |
Steam vent pipe near the intersection of Pacific and South Ohio Avenues in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Featured: September 24, 2021Photographed: January 29, 2021 |
Exterior sign on the former JCPenney store in Staunton, Virginia.Featured: September 17, 2021Photographed: December 10, 2020 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Staunton Mall" in Life and Times. |
Neon sign advertising grinder subs in the window of Louie's Pizza in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.Featured: September 8, 2021Photographed: August 31, 2021 |
"Kelsey" carved into a tree at the former St. Mary's College campus in Ilchester, Maryland.Featured: August 31, 2021Photographed: August 25, 2021 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "Going to show that you never know what is going to produce the winning shots…" in the Journal. |
Discarded face mask in the parking lot of Frederick Crossing, a shopping center in Frederick, Maryland.Featured: August 24, 2021Photographed: August 18, 2021 |
Entrance to the Omni Charlottesville Hotel, on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia.Featured: August 18, 2021Photographed: October 15, 2020 |
Sign directing drivers towards Atlantic City, New Jersey at a service area on the Atlantic City Expressway.Featured: August 11, 2021Photographed: January 29, 2021 |
Water tower in a neighborhood in Culpeper, Virginia.Featured: August 5, 2021Photographed: July 6, 2021 |
Cars move around a traffic circle in Lincoln Square, in the center of downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: July 28, 2021Photographed: July 20, 2021 |
The Clock Tower, over the intersection of East Beverley Street and North Central Avenue in downtown Staunton, Virginia.Featured: July 20, 2021Photographed: October 15, 2020 |
Vienna, a station on the Orange Line of the Washington Metro system.Featured: July 13, 2021Photographed: July 2, 2021 |
A pair of shoes hangs from a wire over Queens Chapel Road in the Langdon neighborhood of Washington, DC.Featured: July 6, 2021Photographed: June 29, 2021 |
Norfolk Southern rail bridge over the Potomac River, near Shepherdstown, West Virginia.Featured: June 29, 2021Photographed: May 18, 2021 |
A metal ring sits on a bench at East Falls Church station in Arlington, Virginia.Featured: June 22, 2021Photographed: June 19, 2021 |
"The cake is a LIE," referencing the video game Portal, written on the Community Chalkboard in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia.Featured: June 15, 2021Photographed: October 15, 2020 |
AT&T Long Lines tower near Dumfries, Virginia.Featured: June 8, 2021Photographed: June 1, 2021 |