Photo Feature Archives
The Photo Feature was launched on the main page on March 12, 2005 as part of a main page redesign, replacing the quote article. Images run on the main page with a description as well as the date that they were photographed. They are run at 350×467 resolution at that location if vertical, and at 600×450 if horizontal.
On this page, images are presented thumbnail-size. Click the thumbnail image to see the full-size image, which is presented at full resolution, and is available for download.
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U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey benchmark at the Williamsburg, Virginia Transportation Center.Featured: February 7, 2021Photographed: April 6, 2020 |
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Federal Signal Modulator siren, along the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Featured: January 31, 2021Photographed: January 15, 2021 |
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The SS United States, behind a fence along Columbus Boulevard in Philadelphia.Featured: January 23, 2021Photographed: January 14, 2021 |
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The grave of Paul Revere at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.Featured: January 15, 2021Photographed: May 30, 2010 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "Boston Megaraid" in Life and Times. |
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Neon sign at the Ingleside, a golf course and former resort in Staunton, Virginia.Featured: January 8, 2021Photographed: December 10, 2020 |
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Camera on a tripod, photographing Burnt Mills Dam in Silver Spring, Maryland.Featured: January 1, 2021Photographed: March 29, 2020 |
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Subway restaurant in the Goshen Plaza shopping center in Montgomery Village, Maryland, after closing.Featured: December 25, 2020Photographed: November 6, 2020 |
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Buckingham Branch locomotive 13 idles on a track near downtown Staunton, Virginia.Featured: December 18, 2020Photographed: December 10, 2020 |
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Platform at East Falls Church station, on the Orange Line of the Washington Metro system.Featured: December 11, 2020Photographed: November 17, 2020 |
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International S-100 truck outside of Lone Oak Farm Brewing Company in Olney, Maryland.Featured: December 4, 2020Photographed: December 3, 2020 |
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Traffic signals on a large gantry spanning the intersection of Fairfax County Parkway and Sunrise Valley Road in Reston, Virginia.Featured: November 28, 2020Photographed: November 20, 2020 |
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Federal Signal Thunderbolt siren on Waterloo Road in Jessup, Maryland.Featured: November 20, 2020Photographed: November 19, 2020 |
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Exit sign at the South Mountain rest area in Frederick County, Maryland.Featured: November 15, 2020Photographed: November 13, 2020 |
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A DJI Mavic Mini drone hovers over a parking lot in Leesburg, Virginia.Featured: November 7, 2020Photographed: November 6, 2020 |
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Activated fire alarm pull station at a former motel in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: October 30, 2020Photographed: October 29, 2020 Notes: This was taken at the former Park Inn by Radisson in Mechanicsburg. The hotel had recently closed, and was slated for demolition in preparation for a redevelopment of the property into a shopping center. |
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Antennas on a cell phone tower in Smithsburg, Maryland.Featured: October 24, 2020Photographed: October 5, 2020 |
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Statue of Lady Justice atop the cupola of the Augusta County Courthouse in downtown Staunton, Virginia.Featured: October 18, 2020Photographed: October 16, 2020 Notes: This statue is item #4763 from the Mullins statuary catalog. More information on recent repairs to this statue can be found here. |
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Street signs at the intersection of Brink and Wightman Roads in Montgomery Village, Maryland.Featured: October 10, 2020Photographed: October 9, 2020 |
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Monument to the casualties suffered by the 4th Maine Infantry during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, at Devil's Den near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: October 2, 2020Photographed: August 20, 2020 |
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A row of townhouses in Montgomery Village, Maryland.Featured: September 26, 2020Photographed: September 24, 2020 Notes: This photo was taken with the camera on my new Mavic Mini drone. Additionally, as you may have guessed, my house is the one in the center, with the green shutters. |
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Roast beef and turkey sandwiches for sale at Little George's, a small market near Westminster, Maryland.Featured: September 18, 2020Photographed: September 4, 2020 |
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A masked demonstrator holds up a sign advocating against the Church of Scientology's "Fair Game" practice at an Anonymous demonstration in Washington, DC.Featured: September 11, 2020Photographed: July 12, 2008 Notes: For more information about this and similar demonstrations, see "Project Chanology in the Nation's Capital" in Life and Times. |
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Disused lower level of the Sears department store in White Oak, Maryland.Featured: September 5, 2020Photographed: August 8, 2020 |
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Clouds move past the sun over a field in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: August 31, 2020Photographed: August 10, 2020 |
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"Wrong way" sign along a one-way road in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: August 22, 2020Photographed: August 20, 2020 |
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Clock tower at Pentagon Row, a mixed-use development in Arlington, Virginia's Pentagon City neighborhood.Featured: August 15, 2020Photographed: August 12, 2020 |
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A discarded pair of disposable gloves in the parking lot of the Lowe's store in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: August 9, 2020Photographed: August 5, 2020 |
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Photo booth, closed because of concerns over coronavirus, at York Galleria, a shopping mall in York, Pennsylvania.Featured: July 31, 2020Photographed: July 29, 2020 |
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Nonstandard sign warning drivers of the traffic pattern around a median on Georgia Avenue in Olney, Maryland.Featured: July 25, 2020Photographed: July 11, 2020 |
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Retro-styled McDonald's restaurant in Ranson, West Virginia.Featured: July 18, 2020Photographed: June 24, 2020 |
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A Boeing 767-281 operated by freight carrier ABX Air takes off from Baltimore–Washington International Airport.Featured: July 10, 2020Photographed: July 9, 2020 |
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"No swearing" sign on a lamppost along Atlantic Avenue in the resort area of Virginia Beach, Virginia.Featured: July 3, 2020Photographed: August 12, 2004 Notes: These signs were part of a "No Bad Behavior" campaign that had been introduced in 2000. A quote article ran on Schumin Web discussing these signs during their inaugural season. The signs were removed in 2019 after a business group lobbied the city for their removal, considering them unwelcoming and ineffective. |
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Town name sign on southbound Back Creek Valley Road in Shanghai, West Virginia.Featured: June 26, 2020Photographed: June 24, 2020 Notes: For those wondering, Shanghai, West Virginia is basically an intersection in the middle of nowhere in Berkeley County, about twenty minutes outside of Martinsburg. |
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Street pylon at the east entrance to Pentagon City station in Arlington County, Virginia.Featured: June 19, 2020Photographed: February 8, 2003 |
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Sign in front of a Popeyes restaurant in Charles Town, West Virginia announcing that the dining room is open again following the lifting of coronavirus-related restrictions on indoor dining.Featured: June 12, 2020Photographed: June 11, 2020 |
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Road signs silhouetted against the sunset at the intersection of routes 64 and 418 in Ringgold, Maryland.Featured: June 5, 2020Photographed: June 1, 2020 |
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A row of townhouses in Montgomery Village, Maryland.Featured: May 29, 2020Photographed: March 14, 2020 Notes: As you probably gathered, the white house with the green shutters is my house. This photo was taken the day after I had a tree removed in my front yard. |
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Indoor seating area at the Whole Foods Market in Rockville, Maryland.Featured: May 21, 2020Photographed: March 11, 2020 Notes: I selected this photo as my "last normal photo" prior to the onset of pandemic-related restrictions. Now, if only the world would look like this again rather than the strange world that it was replaced by. |
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An overturned vehicle following an accident at the intersection of Montgomery Village Avenue and Lost Knife Road in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Featured: May 14, 2020Photographed: May 14, 2020 |
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Lights on a platform pylon at West Falls Church station in Fairfax County, Virginia.Featured: May 7, 2020Photographed: April 13, 2020 |
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Water fountain at McIntire Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.Featured: April 30, 2020Photographed: December 16, 2002 |
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The Dominion Tower, an office building in Norfolk, Virginia.Featured: April 23, 2020Photographed: April 5, 2020 Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A trip out to Hampton Roads..." in the Journal. |
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Office building at 2070 Chain Bridge Road in Vienna, Virginia, commonly known as the "Toilet Bowl Building" due to its most prominent architectural feature.Featured: April 16, 2020Photographed: April 15, 2020 |
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Abandoned sleeper sofa on the Graffiti Highway in Centralia, Pennsylvania.Featured: April 9, 2020Photographed: May 17, 2018 Notes: This photo feature, from my May 2018 visit to Centralia, was run because of current events, where the current owner of the road is burying the pavement, killing the Graffiti Highway for good. |
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The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Featured: April 2, 2020Photographed: March 2, 2020 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "Fun in Pennsylvania…" in the Journal. |
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The west front of the United States Capitol, viewed from First Street SW.Featured: March 26, 2020Photographed: March 24, 2020 |
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Sign outside of an abandoned Days Inn in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.Featured: March 19, 2020Photographed: March 1, 2020 Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "Fun in Pennsylvania…" in the Journal. |
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Ice wings painted in chalk on a wall in an alley in Frederick, Maryland, left over from the "Fire In Ice" event the weekend before.Featured: March 10, 2020Photographed: February 3, 2020 |
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Former Walmart store in Leesburg, Virginia, closed since May 2019, having been replaced by a larger store.Featured: February 28, 2020Photographed: February 27, 2020 |
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Dog-faced puffer fish in an aquarium at Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Maryland.Featured: February 19, 2020Photographed: March 8, 2014 |
