The Straits of Florida

The Delaware Memorial Bridge, a DuPont chemical plant, and the remains of the New Castle ferry landing

Santa Maria della Salute, 2020. Venetians began construction of this basilica in 1621 as an expression of gratitude, devotion and supplication after plague killed one third of the Republic's population. When I took this picture, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, an unwonted but agreeable calm had settled over the city.

Jardin des Tuileries, Paris

Watermen on the River Thames, London

The Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis

Workboat and house, Deale, Maryland

Saxis Island, Virginia (2023 population: 171). Rising seas inundated Chesapeake Bay island communities like Saxis. Similar settlements on Sharps, Holland, and Bloodsworth Islands vanished in the last century.

Curtis Creek, Baltimore

Curtis Creek

Curtis Creek

SS United States on the Delaware River at Philadelphia

The sullied lutulent waters of the Lenape (the Delaware River near Wilmington)

Francis Scott Key Bridge and the Patapsco River

Inferior mirage (view through a telescope across the Chesapeake Bay)

Inferior mirage (view through a telescope across the Chesapeake Bay toward the Bethlehem steel mill at Sparrows Point)

CONSOL coal pier and a Maersk container ship at the Port of Baltimore

ArcelorMittal steel mill on the Ohio River in Weirton, West Virginia.

Supply boat "Dark Star" secured to a rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf of Mexico. "...and the third part of the sea was made blood: and the third part of those creatures died, which had lives in the sea, and the third part of the ships perished." (John of Patmos, Apokalypsis, Douay-Rheims and St. Jerome translations)

The Gulf of Mexico

The Port of Galveston (this semi-submersible rig broke free of her mooring lines in a squall and drifted through the harbor)

The Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery on the Schuylkill River. Once the largest on the Eastern Seaboard this refinery closed in 2019 after a fire, two bankruptcies and three explosions.