A quick storm blows over Georgetown rooftops in Washington, D.C., at about 1:30 PM, Thursday, August 7, 2008. Buy or license this photo.

The sun sets over Georgetown in Washington, DC, as seen from the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Thursday, July 24, 2008.

This is the first photograph selected from the new WaPhoJo Group pool on Flickr. Washington Photo Journal has a small team of photographer contributors, but is always looking for exciting and newsworthy images. We will select the best images contributed to the pool for posts on WaPhoJo. Strong images with complete captions are most likely to be used. To contribute, please join the group and submit your images.

The Mt. Zion Cemetery in Washington, DC, is composed of two burial grounds, the Female Union Band Cemetery, shown above in disrepair in this July 19, 2008, photo, and the Old Methodist Burying Ground, which is well maintained. The Female Union Band Society was a cooperative benevolent society of free black women whose members were pledged to assist one another in sickness and in death. The gravestones indicate both men and women were buried here, with most of the burials occurring between the 1880’s and 1920’s. Photo and caption by Sanjay Suchak for the Washington Photo Journal.