dew roseta

125mm f5.6 1/160s ISO250

I stepped outside with my morning cup of joe... and there she was calling.  I answered.

toofbroosh

28mm f2.8 1/80s ISO100

fun with foto.

Washington Monument Facts

The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet 5⅛ inches (169.294 m).^{[n 1]} There are taller monumental columns, but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.^{[n 2]} It is also the tallest structure in Washington D.C.. It was designed by Robert Mills, an architect of the 1840s. The actual construction of the monument began in 1848 but was not completed until 1884, almost 30 years after the architect's death. This hiatus in construction happened because of co-option by the Know Nothing party, a lack of funds, and the intervention of the American Civil War. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet(46 m or 27%) up, shows where construction was halted for a number of years. 

CAN YOU SPOT THE FIVE SIGNIFICANT "PLACES" IN THIS PHOTO?

1200 Pennsylvania

65mm f5.0 1/60s ISO1200

The Ariel Rios Federal Building is located in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., across 12th Street from the Old Post Office, which the new building was designed to replace. The New Post Office, as the Rios Building was originally known, housed the headquarters of the Post Office Department until that department was replaced by the United States Postal Service in 1971. The building, which now houses the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was renamed on February 5, 1985, in honor of Ariel Rios, an undercover special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who was killed in the line of duty on December 2, 1982.  

Currently, the Ariel Rios Building is badly in need of renovations. Many of the windows are original single paned with hollow frames, allowing air and heat to bleed out. Similarly, the original plumbing from the 1930s contains lead and signs in the bathrooms of EPA Headquarters warn that the water is for external use only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Rios_Federal_Building

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470mm f7.1 1/500s ISO800

I shot this from a 19 floor building roof onto a 3 story parking platform.  I suppose that is roughly 160 feet.  It's a bird's eye view that offered a different perspective to an everyday site.  Create your composition.  Write your draft.  Stroke your canvas.  Define your own art.

structure

470mm f7.1 1/400s ISO125

"Four-Sided Pyramid" by Sol LeWitt

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/feature/sculpturegarden/sculpture/sculpture10.shtm

BPC: Weathered- "orneight"

125mm f8.0 1125s ISO100
Oxidized and pocked with 50+ years of exposure and environmental beat down.  Weathered and worn translated to well experienced. Been there done that.  This relic Ford emblem has been through decades of life.  Now sent to retirement in pasture...  it watches on.

petals VI

125mm f5.6 1/125s ISO3200

a series... to be continued...

petals V

125mm f5.6 1/125s ISO640

a series.

pedals IV

126mm f5.6 1/125s ISO800

a series.

pedals III

125mm f6.3 1/125s ISO2500

a series.

pedals II

188mm f6.3 1/125s ISO160

a series.

pedals I

120mm (macro) f5.6 1/125s ISO250

point blank in your face can't hide pedal shot.

a series.

WE OWE EVERYTHING TO THEM!

To those that went before us... To secure and defend our Freedom...  To those who paid the ultimate sacrifice... To those that gave the last breath in valor.  WE SALUTE YOU.


In Charleston, South Carolina in 1865 Freedmen (freed slaves) celebrated at the Washington Race Course (today the location of Hampton Park). The site had been used as a temporary Confederate prison camp for captured Union soldiers in 1865, as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who died there. Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, Freedmen exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and reinterred them properly with individual graves. They built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch and declared it a Union graveyard. On May 1, 1865, a crowd of up to ten thousand, mainly black residents, including 2800 children, proceeded to the location for events that included sermons, singing, and a picnic on the grounds, thereby creating the first Decoration Day.  It was the nation's first Memorial Day.

Veterans Rally

590mm f5.6 1/125s ISO100

It's Memorial Day weekend and I'm in Washington D.C. 

Veteran's Day is to honor military veterans.  Memorial Day, formerly known as "Decoration Day", commemorates men and woman that have died while in military service.  As a Navy Vet myself and a FREE United States Citizen... this holiday moves me like no other.  There is a Veteran's Memorial near you somewhere.  Find it, and go visit one afternoon.  Clear your mind of current political debates and economic issues.  Think about the FREE society you live in.  Think about what it has cost us over to years to earn this Freedom.  Never miss an opportunity to thank a Veteran.