Usually a found situation with strong human interest; a fresh view of an everyday scene.
UNITED STATES – 01-12-2019: Whip Johnny Dean waits to release the hounds at the Piedmont Fox Hound kennels during a Saturday morning hunt. The oldest fox hunting club in the United States is the Piedmont Hunt, which is located along Newline Mill Road near the Village of Unison. It was founded in 1840. Early settlers brought hounds of various types from Britain, France and Ireland, and, by 1900, the American foxhound was a breed of it’s own. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – August 1, 2016: Loudoun’s most charming general stores. If your traveling in Western Loudoun you need to add these rural gems to your road-trip bucket list. Noah Schulman eats a snack in-between mowing lawns in front of the Round Hill Grocery general store on route 719 in the village of Hillsboro. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – June 10, 2019: A rarely seen red-headed woodpecker feeds from a fence along Foggy Bottom Road near Bloomfield. The bird is a small or medium-sized woodpecker from temperate North America. Their breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the eastern-central United States. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – June 27, 2019: Lisette Graham rides her horse at Fieldstone Farm circa 1760 near Waterford. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – June 9, 2019: An American Game Cock holds court on the front porch of the Bluemont General Store in the village of Bluemont. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES: July 17, 2019: The sun sets on the southern most island along North Carolina’s coast, Portsmouth Island. Life is different here with no fast food, stop lights and small roads that are better for biking then driving. (Photo by Douglas Graham) 
UNITED STATES: July 17, 2019: A tourist watches the sunset on the southern most island along North Carolina’s coast, Ocracoke Island. Life is different here with no fast food, stop lights and small roads better that are for biking then driving make you slow down and relax. (Photo by Douglas Graham) 
UNITED STATES – Nov. 11, 2019: White tail deer herd walks off into the sunset along Morrisville Raod in Western Loudoun County Virginia. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – September 11, 2019: Main street in the town of Wilton Iowa. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – June 8, 2019: (LtoR) Brooke, Jake and Kevin Mitchell enjoy ice cream on the front porch of the Round Hill Local Grocery in the Town of Round Hill. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – September 15, 2019: Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Tower is an astounding geologic feature that protrudes out of the prairie surrounding the Black Hills. It is considered sacred by Northern Plains Indians and indigenous people. Hundreds of parallel cracks make it one of the finest crack climbing areas in North America. Devils Tower entices us to learn more, explore more and define our place in the natural and cultural world. Devils Tower is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – August 20, 2019: A large thunder storm rolls in after a hot day producing heavy rain, lighting and high winds.(Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – 02-20-2019: During a snow storm an equestrian makes her way down Foggy Bottom Road near Bloomfield, Virginia. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES – June 22, 2019: Allen Cochran moves his sheep along Taylor Road to a new feeding pasture using his sheep dogs just outside of the Quaker settlement of Lincoln. This is a scene that has repeated itself for hundreds of years but is now a fleeting moment as development pushes West. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP) 
UNITED STATES: August 6, 2018: The Color Guard works on routines during Loudoun County Marching Raiders practice. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES: June 18, 2018: Purcellville is going to conduct a feasibility study to determine if growing hops on the 189-acre Aberdeen Property is a worthwhile business venture. The property is on Short Hill Road before you get to the water treatment plant. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – 01-06-2017: The first measurable snow storm of the year put down about 3 of light fluffy snow in the blue ridge mountains at higher elevations near Bears Den. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
Like the postman bicycle messengers work in rain and snow as this messenger heads West on Independence Ave. in the first snow of the on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2009. Rayburn House Office Building is in the background. 
trout103001 — Rainbow trout spawn in Hoyes Run in Garrett County Maryland. 
Heavy fog sets in at Big Meadows campground in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. 
Sky Meadows State Park. The land for this park was donated in 1975 by Paul Mellon of Upperville to the Commonwealth of Virginia. It consisted of 1,132 acres. The name Sky Meadows came from former owner Robert Hadow, who named the property “Skye Farm” after an island in Scotland. In 1988 Mellon donated another 486 acres. This area has been developed into an equestrian staging and bridle trail area. 
Snow covered creek flowing into the Shenandoah River in Clarke County, Virginia. 
The blue Ridge Mountains from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Lexington Virginia. 
1Redtail021400 — Anne Hocker of Shorthill Mountain hunts her Red Tailed Hawk at the G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area. Hocker, who is an apprentice falconer, works with her bird every day, logging many miles finding new places to hunt. The bird and handler had a good day, taking a nice gray squirrel… 
Fog covers the Potomac River near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron – Nycticorax violaceus 
UNITED STATES – July 4, 2017: Peyton, age 2 and Mason Grant, age 3 wait for the Independence Day Parade to start in Leesburg Virginia. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
UNITED STATES – November 21, 2017: A tree climber got more then he bargained for during a tree removal in Bluemont. Tino’s Tree Service crew was taking down a towering silver maple that was old and in bad shape and needed to come down for the safety of the structure.(Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now) 
Douglas Graham Photojournalist 