Each month, Washingtonian magazine’s print issue offers a two-page photo spread, with the publication’s June 2026 issue featuring one of our images. The photo is from an open practice I visited in March of the Old Glory DC rugby club, the area’s Major League Rugby franchise that plays at George Mason University stadium in Fairfax, Virginia.
At the practice, I got a ground-level shot, sprawling out on the pitch (field) as the ball is pushed in the middle of a scrum. The photo, shown above, has Old Glory DC’s assistant coach Stan South standing over the scrum as the forwards, the bigger players, push their opponents to take possession of the ball.
I pitched the images to publications in the region, and Washingtonian responded. Washingtonian is a glossy monthly politics and lifestyle magazine that features a two-page photo spread they call the Big Picture, in its Capital Comment section toward the front of the print issue. And the magazine’s art director chose that photo for the June issue’s Big Picture.
Big Picture photos are available only in the print issue and not online, but Washingtonian sent me a PDF of the spread, which I posted on technewslit.com. More photos from the open practice and the club’s first home match at George Mason University stadium are found in the TechNewsLit collections on Smugmug.
Each of the photos in these galleries carries a Creative Commons – Attribution license.
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