Navarre, Florida, USA

Here is an urban skyline that sits like a crown on top of a narrow ribbon of sand, a barrier island between sound and sea. The island is regularly bombarded by storm waves, coastal currents, hurricane-force winds, heavy rains, the outflow from Santa Rosa Sound, and rising sea levels. Is all that urban development in this particular place a good investment? [2018]

Strong City, Oklahoma, USA

Strong City is a city in name (see it?) only. It offers strong proof that a city can be rural. Why rural? Because it does not meet the 2,500 population minimum set by the U.S. Census Bureau. In fact, its population never reached even half of that, not even in 1900 when it peaked. Today, only a few more than 400 souls keep the "city" alive. [2018]

Cape Charles, Virginia, USA

What color is summer? Here are the answers. Summer is the color of your garden and your closest farmers' market. How many types of peppers can you identify here and who is their purple friend? [2018]

Harrisburg and the West Shore, Pennsylvania, USA

Today is the 10th anniversary of Geographically Yours. At one picture per day, that amounts to over 3,600 photographs, all taken by me. To celebrate, I am posting a few favorite pictures from high school: pictures that I thought captured each moment well, pictures taken as slides on a Kodak Instammatic. [1968 and 1969]

THE BACKSTORY ~ Posted on the 10^th Anniversary of Geographically Yours, 4 August 2020: By the time I got to high school, cameras were cheap enough to be affordable, and I was old enough to be responsible. Some of my first photos are posted here. They reflect the advantages of growing up in Central Pennsylvania. East of where I lived was the state capitol which offered performance art on a regular basis. West of where I lived were the great outdoors, which offered places to walk, to camp, and to hike, places where you might find a hillside spring proffering a cool drink. The performance art at the capitol was usually political. It was good theater whether or not you liked the politics (and I didn’t); I just enjoyed the idea that I could get close enough to a political candidate to take his picture, right there on the front steps of the capitol, right near the spot where my grandfather and I used to feed the squirrels on the capitol grounds. In the other direction were the woods in Rossmoyne, the meadows along the Yellow Breeches Creek, and, yes, those springs. Where this one was, I have long forgotten! Whether alone (which I was in two of the pictures) or with friends, I discovered how much fun it was to document the people and places of my world, a world that would gradually expand from Central Pennsylvania to six of the seven continents and four of the five oceans. You can see my world, as documented in Geographically Yours on the map below. D.J.Z.

Santa Clara, California, USA

What can you carry around with you in a purloined shopping cart? Lots of things recreational. Yet, it seems as if recreation is not his primary objective. If ever a photo deserved a short story, this is it. You've already got the title: The Purloined Shopping Cart. So, start writing and make Poe proud. [2020]

Baker, Montana, USA

Although nature has provided an exclamation point or two, few punctuation marks interrupt the cultural flatscapes that are the Great Plains. Here is one that does, however. Think of it as a comma used to break-up the run-on sentences which make up the Plains. Pumpjacks as commas? They invite only a short pause, not a full stop, or an appreciative exclamation. [2019]

Chimney Rock, Nebraska, USA

Chimney Rock became an exclamation point (!) along the Oregon Trail for westward-ho pioneers following the North Platte River. Its iconic status is affirmed by its visual reproduction in lots of places, including cemeteries, such as this one in nearby Gering. [2019]