Washington DC Overnight
moose135
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Heading up to New York for the holiday weekend air show, and I stopped for the night in Washington, DC. It's probably my favorite city to shoot, especially at night. After checking in and a quick dinner, I headed into the city.
1 - The sculpture that is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2 - Albert Einstein outside the National Academy of Sciences.
3 - Most photos I see of the Lincoln Memorial (my own included) shoot the memorial from straight ahead. As I approached from the Vietnam Memorial, I was struck by this view.
4 - All the times I've walked around on the Memorial, I've never really gone around this side, but last night I was rewarded with this shot. The scaffolding on the Washington Monument is for the repairs to the monument following the August 2011 earthquake which struck the East Coast.
After I was done, I headed back to the motel, grabbed a late dinner, and processed the photos above. By the time I was done, it was a little after 1 AM, and I decided to do something I've thought about the past few times I've been in DC - I headed back into the city to shoot some of the memorials in the middle of the night, once the crowds were gone.
5 - The World War II Memorial at 4 AM
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8 - The Smithsonian Institution at 5 AM.
9 - It had been cloudy and drizzly much of the night, and the fog really rolled in before morning.
10 - 3 AM, hanging with Mr. Lincoln. And yes, even then, I had to wait for people to get out of my shots!
When I saw we weren't going to get a decent sunrise because of the fog and clouds, I headed back to the motel - and processed some more photos, of course - before turning in, 24 hours after I started my day on Saturday morning...
1 - The sculpture that is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2 - Albert Einstein outside the National Academy of Sciences.
3 - Most photos I see of the Lincoln Memorial (my own included) shoot the memorial from straight ahead. As I approached from the Vietnam Memorial, I was struck by this view.
4 - All the times I've walked around on the Memorial, I've never really gone around this side, but last night I was rewarded with this shot. The scaffolding on the Washington Monument is for the repairs to the monument following the August 2011 earthquake which struck the East Coast.
After I was done, I headed back to the motel, grabbed a late dinner, and processed the photos above. By the time I was done, it was a little after 1 AM, and I decided to do something I've thought about the past few times I've been in DC - I headed back into the city to shoot some of the memorials in the middle of the night, once the crowds were gone.
5 - The World War II Memorial at 4 AM
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8 - The Smithsonian Institution at 5 AM.
9 - It had been cloudy and drizzly much of the night, and the fog really rolled in before morning.
10 - 3 AM, hanging with Mr. Lincoln. And yes, even then, I had to wait for people to get out of my shots!
When I saw we weren't going to get a decent sunrise because of the fog and clouds, I headed back to the motel - and processed some more photos, of course - before turning in, 24 hours after I started my day on Saturday morning...
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Lincoln and the Capitol are particularly good!!!
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