Ben Schumin Photography Portfolio

Photos taken in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on January 27, 2022.

Photos taken in and around Lakeforest Mall, a dead mall in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on March 4, 2022.

A trip to Virginia from March 10-12, 2022, visiting Strasburg, Mount Jackson, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Clifton Forge, Covington, White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia), Lexington, and Waynesboro.

A visit to James Madison University on March 10, 2022.

Photographs of the Ever Forward, a container ship that ran around in the Chesapeake Bay, and the Enchantment of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship shortly after leaving Baltimore for an eight-day cruise to the Bahamas. Photographed with a conventional camera and a drone on March 25, 2022.

Streetlight at the intersection of Jennings Chapel Road and Maryland Route 97 in Howard County, Maryland. The purple color of the light is caused by a manufacturing defect in the coating on the bulbs. Photographed April 8, 2022.

Abandoned former Ramada Inn in Petersburg, Virginia. This facility was built in 1973, and operated as a Ramada Plaza Hotel (i.e. a big Ramada Inn) for most of its time in operation, and later went independent as the Fort Lee Regency before closing in 2012. It has been vacant ever since. There were plans at one time to renovate and reopen the hotel, and a sign was standing in front of the hotel to that effect, but those plans ultimately fell through, and the city is now going through the legal process to have the building demolished.

Photographs taken of the Mormon Temple in Kensington, Maryland, April 28, 2022.

A visit to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland on the evening of May 6, 2022.

A trip to Virginia from June 2-4, 2022, visiting Haymarket, Charlottesville, Waynesboro, Churchville, Stokesville, West Augusta, Head Waters, Monterey, Staunton, Mint Spring, Stuarts Draft, and Sherando.

Sounding Knob Fire Tower, a restored fire watch tower on Jack Mountain near Monterey, Virginia. Photographed June 3, 2022.

A visit to Baltimore, Maryland on June 16, 2022.

A trip to Winchester, Virginia and surrounding areas, June 17, 2022.