I’ve been holding this photo back for some time. I have no reason why. I loved the leading lines and the design of this structure. This is the entrance to the Flight 93 Museum outside of Pittsburgh. The building is great but the material inside is powerful and sad 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 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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As Blair and I walked around Kiev taking photos, we came upon this facility. It was labeled the Museum of Water. We didn’t stand in line to enter, so I can’t speak about it firsthand. When I looked it up later, I learned it includes old water towers and reservoirs with displays on water.
Regardless of what was inside, I liked the looks of it and the scene that unfolded in front of us.
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This massive statue sits on top of the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)…we know it as World War II. This stainless-steel statue is 203 feet tall. Counting the museum building it sit on, the entire structure is 335 feet tall and it weighs 560 tons. The sword in her right hand is 52 feet long by itself and weighs 9 tons. That’s a huge statue by any comparison!! The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is on the shield. Even though this war ended in 1945, they didn’t start the construction of this statue until 1979 and it was completed in 1981.
In Kiev, Ukraine where this is located, the statue is controversial due to Ukraine’s complicated and currently rough relationship with Russia. Blair and I spent a few hours walking around this national park photographing the war monuments, tanks, etc…. If you’re wondering, the blue and yellow tank in the foreground is painted the Ukrainian colors.
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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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Here is another photo from our time at the Smithsonian museums. This is from inside the Fine Arts Museum lobby. I loved all the marble, circles, and other architectural features. The people also provide some scale to show you how large this place is in real life.
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I’ve been to Washington DC a number of times, maybe more than 20 times over the course of fifteen years. During all those visits, I’ve never had the chance to visit any of the Smithsonian museums until our trip last August. MJ and I went to visit a couple of friends and she took me to the museums (she’s been before without me). I liked them all. I took this photo inside the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. If you’ve never visited these museums, put them on your “To Do” list.
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I’m a sucker for architecturally interesting objects…..like this. I just happened to find this spot at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg South Africa. By the way, the museum was interesting and very sad. I liked the curve of the stairs, the railing, shadows, etc…. What do you think?
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Tonight I have something different from what I normally post. I took this picture last summer while on a visit to Georgia. This is from within the Aviation Museum at Warner Robins Air Force Base. Honestly I don’t know what type of plane this is and won’t look it up. The last time I looked up an airplane name from the museum’s website, I had people telling me that I was wrong. So I’ll just leave it at this….. It is a very cool looking plane.
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I took this 7-exposure auto bracket HDR image of the Rock Hall late at night back in 2012. We had a great visit to the museum and Cleveland. If you haven’t been, it is worth the time to experience the museum, especially if you enjoy music.
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The Harrier (or sometimes called the Jump Jet) is a military plane capable of taking off vertically. Its features were displayed well in the 1994 True Lies action moving staring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold. I took this picture inside the Charlotte Air Museum last year prior to visiting my brother’s family.
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Special Note Again Tonight:
GoToTravelNow.com featured my picture of Dyrholaey Lighthouse in an article of amazing lighthouses in Iceland. You can see the article by clicking the photo below.
This is a 7 exposure auto-bracketed set merged together
using Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6. I took this photo during the summer on my visit to Georgia. My son and I went down there to visit a
great friend of mine, who I met over twenty years ago while I was in the
military.
During my time in the military, I spent lots of quality time around A-10s in the Middle East. This specific A-10 is sitting outside the Warner Robins U.S. Air Force Aviation Museum.
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This was built for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be used at Robins Field (now Robins Air Force Base) to fight aircraft crash fires and to help rescue victims. While I was visiting my friend Tony and his family in Georgia, we went to Robins Air Force Base Aircraft Museum. Tony is a firefighter (and I used to do the same job in my former life) at the base, so we were drawn to this antique fire truck. I am posting this picture tonight for Tony. Hope he likes it.
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I would like to start by telling you I am sorry I haven't posted anything lately with my normal every other day routine. I’ve had some additional travel, which took Blair and I down to Georgia. On the way, we stopped in Charlotte to visit family. While we where there, we went to the Carolinas Aviation Museum (http://www.carolinasaviation.org/). It is a relatively small air museum but it had some interesting items.
This is a picture from that spot. It is a Douglas A4 Skyhawk, which is a carrier capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and Marines. It went into use in the early 1960s and was used by the USA into the 1990s. It is still in use by some militaries around the world today such as the Brazilian Navy.
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Here is another picture from the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. Sorry for the short post tonight, I’ve been busy. I’ll have a more detailed post next time and I think it will be another from the ESP.
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MJ and I needed something to do on Saturday morning. We’ve traveled the county and most of
southwestern Pennsylvania a ton in the last three years. But we’d never gone to this museum even
though it isn’t far from our home.
It just wasn’t high on the “To Do” list.
Well it was nice because it was cheap, didn’t take to long (about 1.5 hours), they have about 30 different trolleys (some over 100 years old), and you get an actual trolley ride. It wasn’t exactly uber exciting, but it was fairly interesting.
I took this photo at the stop during the trolley ride, which allows everyone to walk the inside of the trolley storage facility. It is a 7 exposure auto-bracketed shot (+3, +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3) HDR photo merged in Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.
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