Daniel Humphries-Russ

Part of a new series of prints aiming to photograph 50 Maryland diners in 50 nights.

Plum Crazy diner in Westminster, MD, one of a new series of prints aiming to photograph 50 Maryland diners in 50 nights.

Double T diner in Ellicott City, MD, one of a new series of prints aiming to photograph 50 Maryland diners in 50 nights.

Booth's Mill Bridge is in Washington County, Maryland, on MD Route 68, east of MD Route 65. Located near Delamere Mansion where Reverend Bartholomew Booth was headmaster of a boys school attended by the sons of such Revolutionary War figures as Benedict Arnold and Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution.

Burnsides Bridge is now a landmark on the Antietam National Battlefield. The bridge played a key role in the September 1862 Battle of Antietam when 400 to 450 Confederate riflemen held off attempts by General Ambrose Burnsides 12,000 Union soldiers to take the bridge by force.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, NY was built between 1903 and 1905. The Martin House is a prime example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie House ideal, with strong horizontal lines and planes, deeply overhanging eaves, a central hearth, prominent foundation, and a sheltering, cantilevered roof. Frank Lloyd Wright described it as “a domestic symphony, true, vital, comfortable.” The Darwin D. Martin House received National Historic Landmark status in 1986.

The National Capitol Columns is an arrangement of twenty-two Corinthian columns, originally from the United States Capitol, placed on the Ellipse Meadow, 20 acres of open meadow in Washington’s National Arboretum. The columns were originally part of the east portico of the Capitol, built in 1828, and designed by Charles Bulfinch. Thomas U. Walter’s new cast-iron dome, completed in 1866, was significantly larger than the dome built by Bulfinch. To correct the visual impression of inadequate support of the Capitol’s cast-iron dome, an addition to the east side of the Capitol was built in 1958 and the columns were removed. National Arboretum benefactor Ethel Garrett embraced the cause of establishing a permanent home for the columns in the 1980s. The columns now rest on a foundation of stones from the steps that were once on the east side of the Capitol. A watercourse in the steps feeds a reflecting pool providing sound and movement at the site.

Cat’s Meow Daylily Garden is a collection of nine themed gardens located on twenty-four acres in a beautiful valley in Carroll County, Maryland. There are also areas left overgrown with wild roses, blackberry vines, and other native plants to provide natural habitat and a food source for a variety of native wildlife. “Two Barns” is a photograph of the large frame bank barn and an equipment barn on the property. The lower level of the bank barn features a collection of farm implements and wagon wheels. Captured using a 10.5 mm fisheye lens with a 180-degree field of view, this image provides a sense of the space and scale of this place.

Though not immediately apparent as an image of the man-made environment, a close look at the lower left corner of this photograph reveals an errant price tag, $1.99. The art of replicating blooms—out of everything from fabric to shells to feathers—has a long history that spans many cultures. Lindsey Taylor in a 2014 article in the Wall Street Journal said that, "the seemingly uncool craft of simulating nature's blossoms has stealthily become chic."