I’m still sickened by the actions of a few thousand individuals in our nation’s capital this week. Not only did they harm individuals, but they harmed “the people’s house”. This is how it should look when people behave.
By the way, I took this photo in 2019.
I hope you had a great holiday. I am thankful for family and all our past travel. This photo is from our trip to Budapest. The dome on top of the Hungarian Parliament is pretty cool.
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Our trip in 2019 to Hungary was wonderful and we got a chance to experience this building inside and out. The Hungarian Parliament Building is a landmark gothic revival style and is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary. It sits on the Pest side of the city on the Danube River. This is one of hundreds of reasons to like Budapest along with the food, skyline, history, etc…. I could go on forever. Great stuff!!!
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Like many things in the COVID world, this great museum is closed right now…. I love the architecture of this building, which is so different compared to the rest of the Smithsonian facilities on the Washington Mall. Good stuff.
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I hope you’re having a great day. Here is a photo I took 2 years ago of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. I love the look of all that marble.
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I think this is considered the front of the U.S. Capital building. I guess it could be the back…I don’t know. Regardless, I took this photo about two years ago while MJ and I were visiting a friend. Tomorrow I’ll post a “Capital (Night-Rear)” photo of the same location. I think you’ll find it interesting to compare and contrast the photos…day vs night and front vs rear.
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It’s been over a year since I was in Washington D.C. last. Which for me is a long time since my last D.C. trip. Not counting the cities I have lived in, D.C. is the location I’ve visited most by a long shot (90% of my trips to D.C. were work related).
I captured this photo on my last trip in 2018. Like most situations, I’m usually the only person standing in the dark or near dark waiting for just the right moment… This is the result.
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Not much to say about this. It is, what it is! Washington D.C. on a windy night.
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I think Washington DC is a beautiful city filled with history, culture and patriotic symbols. I always enjoy walking around the monuments and buildings by myself at night. During my last trip, I spent some time capturing a ton of images around this beautiful architectural marvel.
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This beautiful palace sits on a hilly back of the Dnipro River in downtown Kiev Ukraine. Blair and I had a hard time capturing a photo of this building without hundreds of military soldiers around it. They were expecting protesters, so they called in the military to guard this and many other spots in the city that day. Let’s just say it made for an interesting day within the city.
This is the official ceremonial residence of the President of Ukraine. It was originally built between 1744 and 1752 for the Russian empire royalty. It also serves as the residence for Governors-General in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sadly, it was burned down by a number of fires in the 19th century but was reconstructed later using old drawings and watercolors as their guide. In the early 1900s, it was part of an agricultural school and museum. It was badly damaged in World War II and restored again in the late 1940s. Today it serves for official functions for the Ukrainian President.
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This is a fairly new Smithsonian museum. I haven’t had a chance to experience the inside, but during my last visit to Washington DC, I photographed the outside. I must admit, it’s a pretty cool looking structure. The sunset reflected nicely off this wide marble wall they have around the perimeter.
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Some days I can come up with tons to say on these posts. Other days, I don’t say much, due to my schedule, being tired, etc.. But tonight, I just can’t think of anything to say. So, I’m telling you I can’t think of anything and therefore, you’re getting nothing of substance. Sorry about wasting your time.
I took this photo of the U.S. Capital building dome last August. I love the Statue Of Freedom on the top.
Here is a fun fact for you…. According to Wikipedia, the cast iron for the dome is an estimated 8.9 million pounds.
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Here is another photo from the Washington D.C. area. We had dinner in this area with our good friend, Nick. Toward the end of dinner, I went off and captured a few photos of this cool location. This is the pedestrian bridge along the Anacostia River.
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I took this photo in August while MJ and I were in Washington DC visiting friends. We stayed at a hotel a few blocks from the White House and I went over at sunset to capture some images. I had a hard time capturing any without the protesters who were in front. So I had to get creative with my composition.
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Good evening, good afternoon or good morning depending on where you’re at right now. Today’s post is from Washington D.C. with the White House at my back as I watched the sunset down Pennsylvania Avenue. I took this photo in early August during our visit to see Nick and Erica. I hope you have a great sunset in your area today.
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MJ and I were in Washington D.C. this weekend vising a couple of our friends (Nick and Erica). We had a great time and enjoyed our time with them. I didn’t take many photos while I was there, but I went out around sunset to capture some photos of the White House at that time of day. I haven’t processed any of those pics yet, but here is a photo of the Capital Building from two visits ago.
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I had a couple of visits to Washington D.C. last year. Surprisingly, I’ve been to D.C. probably over two dozen times in my life. If you would have asked me about that earlier in my life, I wouldn’t have guessed it would become a frequent travel spot for me. It just never appealed to me to visit D.C., but here we are years later and its become my most visited location.
I took this photo during one of my trips last year at sunset. The D.C. Police didn’t like my camera and tripod. They made me back up a few times to get me further and further away from the building. I must look scary or something. During this specific trip, I worked on capturing close ups vs. the normal wide angle perspectives of the capital.
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I hope you have a great Martin Luther King Jr. Day. With all the ugliness in our world right now (you know who and what I mean), it’s nice to know that Dr. King and people like Dr. King have been and are among us. He pushed for nonviolence, racial equality, understanding, and eliminating poverty while maintaining his principles that everyone regardless of color or creed are equal members of the human family. There is a reason why he is the only non-president to have a national holiday dedicated in his honor and non-president memorialized on the Great Wall in the United States capital. Everyone from our current President on down to our newest member, can learn from Dr. King.
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When I was in Washington DC, I tried to capture photos from unusual perspectives in order to get something different vs. the millions of photos taken the exact same way. What do you think?
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I had a good trip to Washington DC earlier this year and I’m looking forward to the next DC trip later this summer. I honestly don’t know how many times I’ve been to DC in the past…..so I’ll just guess by using the technical term…”a bunch”.
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