Big projects are underway in East Falls Church. Developers and local leaders want to make it a commercial and residential hub at the intersection of a major highway and the local commuter rail line.

Which sounds pretty much like what East Falls Church once was. Route 29 crossed the Washington & Old Dominion line. Shops and a movie theater sat across the street from the train station. Most everything was vaporized to make way for the I-66 trench. Railroad buffs rescued the station and moved it to the Shenandoah Valley.

Where the Westlee condominiums stand, local residents used to dump trash, industrial waste and the occasional Model T along the banks of Four Mile Run. An oil-tank farm was there in World War II, and most recently a used-car lot.

-- Peter Overby

Navy Chaplain

Photo by Justine Kenin.

Ahh, the other side of my brain, so long dormant, has reawakened. It's a screaming infant, but it's hungry and ready to conquer the visual world. Or have fun trying. We just ended our second day with Karl Kuntz, photo editor of The Columbus Dispatch. He's a delight, and did his best to help us get more comfortable with fancy digital cameras. Here's one I shot from the US Navy Memorial -- he's a Navy Chaplain.

-- Justine Kenin

I call this one, Photo Of Kim That Accidentally Turned Out Well.

Photo by Barrie Hardymon.

Yes, the camera training is blowing my mind. I've always been imbued with a sense of terror that I will change a setting on my camera and all my pictures will suddenly be in fisheye mode -- that scenario haunts me NO LONGER. I am free from the tyranny of ISO and flash and whatever the hell that little flower is. Here, for your viewing pleasure is Kim Perry, who has done me the favor of being photogenic as well as helpful. Thanks, Kim, and I love your haircut.

-- Barrie Jessica Hardymon