15
Aug
2013

The – belated – Fourth of July 2013 post

Sometimes you take a ton of photos, forget to edit and post them, and then wait about a month before remembering about them until you are about to from your hard drive to an external storage device. Maybe that happened with these Fourth of July photos, and maybe it didn’t. But I do know that […]

15
Apr
2013
From the balcony of the Newseum 2

A picture of the Capital and…the Berlin Wall?

I haven’t done much photographering in a while, but this last weekend a friend of mine had their birthday and that seemed like a nice time to bring out the camera. We ended up going to the Newseum, a museum about news. They happen to be right on Pennsylvania Avenue, and they have a balcony […]

21
Jan
2013

Inauguration 2013

Every four years we get to become excited for a new president, and today the nation celebrated the inauguration of Obama 2.0. Since I didn’t know if I’d be around the next time this happens, I figured trying to get in and among the people was a good idea. Here are some shots from the […]

05
Jul
2012

Fourth of July in Washington DC

With weather upwards of 100 degrees and the thought of a Metro trip from hell in the back of our minds, going to the Mall to watch fireworks almost did not make the cut for activities for the 4th of July, 2012. In the end, we mustered the will to go out in the face […]

16
Apr
2012

Teddy Roosevelt Island 4/14/12

The National Mall is a great place full of interesting things to look at, and if you aren’t careful you might actually get some exercise without even knowing it. But what if you want to see an interesting memorial but not be in and among hordes of people? Theodore Roosevelt Island might be what you […]

24
Mar
2012

Reason Rally, Washington DC

Being the nation’s capital and all, Washington DC is the place to go if you want to put together a rally. Today, just east of the Washington Monument there was a rally for reason called adequately enough, the Reason Rally: The Reason Rally is a movement-wide event sponsored by the country’s major secular organizations. The […]