Big Top, Museum of the U.S. Army

Taste of NOVA, National Museum of the U.S. Army

Forest Floor, Glade Woods

Shot towards the end of a 3-mile run. We’re now into the third or fourth act of spring. The daffodils have come and gone. The cherry blossoms have come and gone. Now the forest floor is blooming, transforming an otherwise scene into something worth stopping for.

From the Archive

Twelve years ago, Walpole, Massachusetts

Jane Magnolia. Pegasus Lane

Saw this scene down a street when I was driving, so I make sure to route my run by here.

Redbud, Reston Parkway

Spring offers little surprises everywhere. I’ve stopped on this bridge hundred of times for a red light, but never noticed that the tree underneath is so beautiful.

Reston Station, Sunset

I’ve been photographing the Reston Station complex with the drone for several years now. The mixed lighting sources are plastically dynamic, and you can’t be the diagonals in the Helmut Jahn building..

Van Gogh Bridge, Lake Anne

About 10 years ago, I got an assignment from Reston magazine to make a portrait of the town’s founder, Robert E. Simon, near this bridge. The trees were at peak flower, as they are in this photograph, but Simon’s schedule was too busy. He penciled me in for the following week, but not before…. a storm blew all the petals off the trees. We did the shoot anyway.

The sun was obscured by clouds this morning, so the light didn’t quite happen. I’ll be back.

Waiting for the Bread

Amy’s job has her reading a lot of restaurant reviews, and she was eager to try new place out: The Maple Room in Vienna, VA. Service was slow, so I whipped out my 11-year-old Fuji X100T and made some snaps. Here, Caroline waits for the bread to arrive.

Sunrise over Lake Audubon

Spring in Virginia is just wonderful. There’s really no other place in the country I’d rather be right now.

Above Upperville, VA

Virginia horse country is some of the most beautiful landscape in the United States: Lots of green, open pasture and rolling Piedmont framed against the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is surprisingly not widely photographed for such a gorgeous place, probably because much of it is away from highways. To get here, you need to drive an hour outside Washington, DC and then take 10 miles of two-lane roads. This was an outtake from a recent magazine assignment shot with a drone.

First fallen flowers

Since spring arrived early, blossoms are falling before they would normally even appear. These azalea flowers have just fallen, so they are still bright and saturated in the mulch.