Thunderbirds < Blue Angels. Just sayin’.
We hit up the Joint Forces Open House and Airshow again this year where the Air Force’s Thunderbirds performed:
Cherry Blossoms and Bad Light
So, the weather during this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival was just nasty. I brought my camera to work on a day that was actually really nice but by the time I made it down to the Tidal Basin to snap some shots of the cherry blossoms, the weather turned back to crap. It was cold, [...]
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial on 9/11
We braved the Metro delays yesterday and headed over to the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon and it was definitely worth the effort. Next to the Vietnam War Memorial, this is certainly one of the more powerful and beautiful memorials I’ve seen.
I took some photos at the Cherry Blossom Festival but I’m not really happy with any of them.
The light was pretty flat and I did not bring my A game.
National Botanical Gardens (Part 1)
Lindsey and I took a trip into the District today and decided to check out the orchid show at the National Botanical Gardens, cameras in hand. I ended up getting some pretty good shots despite the rare shafts of good light. Here’s the first batch:
Today we got a blizzard, a snownado, a snurricane.
Seriously, we got another 10 inches or so today and according to the National Weather Service, we had “blizzard conditions” and were told that going outside could be fatal. I braved the elements for a brief photo or two. This photo simply does not do the storm justice but you can see the trees moving [...]
Yeah, they’re real.
Lindsey and I hit up the National Archives yesterday and I couldn’t resist snapping a few shots of the founding documents. Keep in mind that there was no flash photography allowed so I was shooting wide open which accounts for the complete lack of depth of field in these shots.