Thanks to all our friends, old and new, who stopped by to visit us in Chantilly this past weekend — we had a great time. We managed to get the van loaded and we were on the road just before the heavy rain set in. The rain never really let up all the way home, and it’s still raining this morning. Today’s Photograph of the Day is a companion piece to E1034 posted on March 1,...

This was one of those mornings that when I get to my destination, the sky is a solid black overcast that gradually changes through shades of gray and ends up as a solid white overcast. So when I don’t have what I came for — in this case a sunrise view of the Watch Hill Light — I can either head back home, or I try to find something unexpected to photograph. It’s time to see what’s there. Instead of looking out toward the lighthouse, I looked down at my feet and saw all of these wonderful patterns the waves were making as they washed over the rocks. Had the sunrise been...

We were staying at a hotel on Virginia Beach, and even though it looked like sunrise was going be a little flat on this morning, we went down to the beach anyway. We always try to arrive at our destination at least 45 minutes before sunrise so we’ll be there for civil sunrise– that’s when the rich brilliant of sunrise are happening. The sky was a nice deep orange, but there were just a few small clouds, so not a very dramatic sunrise. As we walked down the beach, I saw from a distance that the lights above and below the 14th Street Pier were coloring the water. I fired off one shot...

This is the first sunrise that greeted us on our first visit to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. We had planned our trip to be at the beginning of the season — well before the Salt Water Cowboys had their pony round-up. The pony swim/round-up is probably the most popular event on the island. The popularity of the Chincoteague pony dates, in large part, from the children’s novel Misty of Chincoteague We had the whole place nearly to ourselves, especially at sunrise. And, judging by the number of T-shirts, posters and souvenirs celebrating the size and number of mosquitoes, I think we...

A new panorama for today. This is a sunrise on Narragansett Beach in RI, one of the more popular surfing beaches in the state. This image can be effectively combined with the other panoramas and standard format photographs that are available on my...