Photo Feature Archives
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A woman lines up a shot with her camera in a park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: August 13, 2016Photographed: August 11, 2016 Notes: The subject of this photo is my friend Elyse. For more photos from this day, see "I have been to Pennsylvania a lot lately…" in the Journal. |
Stuffed toys of The Smurfs inside a claw machine at a store in Glen Burnie, Maryland.Featured: August 7, 2016Photographed: March 3, 2015 |
Marker graffiti on a wall at the former Skyline Parkway Motor Court, an abandoned motel on Afton Mountain in Virginia.Featured: July 30, 2016Photographed: March 30, 2016 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "The only constant is change…" in the Journal. |
Outbound MARC Brunswick Line train arriving at the station in Kensington, Maryland.Featured: July 23, 2016Photographed: July 22, 2016 |
Signage for the Interstate 83 business loop through downtown York, Pennsylvania.Featured: July 17, 2016Photographed: July 14, 2016 |
Edwards fire alarm pull station at 4303 Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, DC.Featured: July 10, 2016Photographed: May 26, 2016 Notes: Note the older Edwards logo, where the shield is more square in shape, rather than triangular. |
House on Cornell Road in Glassboro, New Jersey.Featured: July 4, 2016Photographed: June 9, 2016 Notes: This is the house where I lived from birth to age three. For more photos from this day, see "Good to see our old house looking better than it has in quite some time…" in the Journal. |
A plastic shopping bag from the now-defunct discount store Ames, now holding trash on the side of a road in Aspen Hill, Maryland.Featured: June 27, 2016Photographed: June 24, 2016 Notes: For those curious, this bag is 14 years old at minimum, as Ames went out of business in 2002. Really a shame to see this vintage shopping bag end its days as a garbage bag, as I'm sure that many collectors would love to have had it. |
Vintage neon sign for Marlow Heights Shopping Center, off of Branch Avenue and St. Barnabas Road in Prince George's County, Maryland.Featured: June 17, 2016Photographed: May 25, 2016 |
Chancellor Street, a cobblestone alley between South 12th and 13th Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Featured: June 10, 2016Photographed: June 9, 2016 |
Railroad signal and crossbuck on Gun Road, at one of the exits for Patapsco Valley State Park in Baltimore County, Maryland.Featured: May 29, 2016Photographed: March 17, 2016 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Exploring an abandoned house…" in the Journal, and "Scott's House" in Photography. |
Former Shoppers Food store in Ellicott City, Maryland, two hours after closing for the final time.Featured: May 20, 2016Photographed: October 18, 2014 |
An unfinished Best Western hotel, after construction had been halted due to financial problems, in Thornburg, Virginia.Featured: May 15, 2016Photographed: November 29, 2014 Notes: Construction resumed on this hotel in 2015, and as of this writing is substantially complete, with new paint and stone facing on the exterior. The hotel will be branded as a Best Western Plus. |
HAWK beacon at the intersection of 16th and Jonquil Streets NW in Washington, DC.Featured: May 6, 2016Photographed: March 24, 2016 |
An opened container of whole cloves sits on a counter in the kitchen of an abandoned house near Elkridge, Maryland.Featured: April 22, 2016Photographed: March 17, 2016 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Exploring an abandoned house…" in the Journal, and "Scott's House" in Photography. |
The M/V Neuse, a River Class ferryboat, running the North Carolina Ferry System's Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry service.Featured: April 16, 2016Photographed: June 28, 2014 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Outer Banks" in Life and Times. |
Power plant building at Lorton Reformatory, a former District of Columbia prison in Fairfax County, Virginia.Featured: April 9, 2016Photographed: December 10, 2015 |
The "D-Hall Deli" station at the Fresh Food Company, one of several eateries at Gibbons Hall, the main dining hall on the campus of James Madison University.Featured: April 1, 2016Photographed: March 31, 2016 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A visit to JMU…" in the Journal. |
A 2007 Champion EZ-Trans cutaway van, formerly Ride On's bus 5214, parked on South Newkirk Street in Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: March 25, 2016Photographed: October 15, 2015 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "What happens to a retired Champion..." and "A shopping center full of what once was…" in the Journal. |
Rusted Sears Craftsman LT1036 lawnmower in the front lawn of an abandoned house in Elkridge, Maryland.Featured: March 18, 2016Photographed: March 17, 2016 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Exploring an abandoned house…" in the Journal, and "Scott's House" in Photography. |
A frozen drink, still in its cup, at the Convention Center light rail station in Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: March 10, 2016Photographed: February 11, 2016 Notes: First photo feature taken with Nikon D5300 camera. |
A man and a woman stand together on High Rock, taking photos of the view with their phones.Featured: February 26, 2016Photographed: October 22, 2015 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "High Rock" in Photography. |
A woman speaks at a demonstration in support of Private Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning outside Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia.Featured: February 18, 2016Photographed: March 20, 2011 Notes: This photo is part of the From the White House to Quantico set in Life and Times. |
Activated ADT pull station in the bus terminal at Union Station in Washington DC.Featured: February 12, 2016Photographed: February 11, 2016 Notes: First photo feature taken with Samsung Galaxy Note 5 camera. |
A 1000-Series railcar at the Largo Town Center Metro station, in Prince George's County, Maryland.Featured: February 4, 2016Photographed: July 4, 2006 |
Light switch inside a building at Lorton Reformatory, a former District of Columbia prison in Fairfax County, Virginia.Featured: January 23, 2016Photographed: December 10, 2015 |
Fire alarm horn and strobe at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Featured: January 14, 2016Photographed: October 17, 2003 Notes: For more photos from this day, see the Pittsburgh with LPCM photo set in College Life. |
A basketball goal near the beach at Sandy Point State Park, near Annapolis, Maryland.Featured: January 7, 2016Photographed: February 9, 2013 Notes: This photo is part of the Sandy Point State Park set in Photography. |
Walmart shopping cart abandoned on the side of Columbus Blvd in Philadelphia, near IKEA.Featured: January 1, 2016Photographed: March 31, 2015 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Fun in Philadelphia..." in the Journal. |
Interior of PATCO I railcar 223, manufactured by Budd in 1968, in Lindenwold, New Jersey.Featured: December 24, 2015Photographed: March 31, 2015 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Fun in Philadelphia..." in the Journal. |
Rusted water tower at Lorton Reformatory, a former prison for the District of Columbia, in Lorton, Virginia.Featured: December 16, 2015Photographed: December 10, 2015 |
Bus 6379, a New Flyer DE40LFA, at White Oak Shopping Center, northern terminus for the Metrobus K6 route.Featured: December 10, 2015Photographed: October 25, 2015 |
Mountaintop sign for WTBO, a radio station in Cumberland, Maryland, just before sunset.Featured: December 2, 2015Photographed: October 2, 2014 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Back to Cumberland..." in the Journal. |
Millipede on the Humpback Rock trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.Featured: November 21, 2015Photographed: May 28, 2012 Notes: This photo is part of the Humpback Rock set in Photography. |
A can of Steel Reserve beer, wrapped in a paper bag underneath a bench in a bus shelter at the Takoma Metro station.Featured: November 13, 2015Photographed: May 31, 2015 |
Sign for former Ames department store at the Diamond Point Plaza shopping center, near Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: November 5, 2015Photographed: October 15, 2015 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A shopping center full of what once was…" in the Journal. |
Sunset as viewed from High Rock, on South Mountain in Pen Mar, Maryland near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.Featured: October 29, 2015Photographed: October 22, 2015 Notes: For more photos from High Rock, see "I feel like I was shooting the photos for those motivational posters…" in the Journal. |
Brick in the parking lot at the mostly vacant Diamond Point Plaza shopping center outside Baltimore, Maryland.Featured: October 21, 2015Photographed: October 15, 2015 |
Headstone for the grave of a person named Butt, at Harper Cemetery in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.Featured: October 14, 2015Photographed: May 4, 2014 |
MARC locomotive 24 leads a consist while operating westbound Brunswick Line service, at Point of Rocks, Maryland.Featured: September 30, 2015Photographed: August 4, 2015 |
House at 10 St. Luke's Place in New York City's Greenwich Village, used for establishing shots of the Huxtable residence in the 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show.Featured: September 24, 2015Photographed: June 9, 2015 Notes: For those interested, despite that The Cosby Show was set in Brooklyn, the house used for establishing shots of the home is located in Manhattan. |
Bus 80, a 2004 Orion V operated by DASH, at the King Street-Old Town Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia.Featured: September 16, 2015Photographed: August 21, 2015 |
House at the intersection of 16th and Buchanan Street NW in Washington DC's 16th Street Heights neighborhood.Featured: September 4, 2015Photographed: April 12, 2015 |
Afternoon sky over Parklawn Drive in Rockville, Maryland.Featured: August 28, 2015Photographed: July 15, 2015 |
A Hitachi hydraulic excavator works from the top of a pile of dirt at the construction site for the new Wheaton High School in Wheaton, Maryland.Featured: August 20, 2015Photographed: May 7, 2015 |
Sign for the Quarry overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, in Botetourt County, Virginia.Featured: August 7, 2015Photographed: September 1, 2014 |
Sign for bacon at Whole Foods Market in Rockville, Maryland.Featured: July 29, 2015Photographed: August 7, 2014 |
A woman leans on a tree branch while watching a squirrel in New York City's Central Park.Featured: July 22, 2015Photographed: June 9, 2015 Notes: The person depicted in this photograph is my friend Doreen, with whom I traveled to New York City on June 9, 2015. |
A sign printed with "REALLY" is mounted beneath a standard stop sign on the campus of Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland.Featured: July 15, 2015Photographed: July 8, 2015 |
Mouthwash cup with napkin on a stand in a dental office in Washington DC.Featured: July 1, 2015Photographed: July 1, 2015 |