It’s been a minute since I was last in Washington D.C., which seems weird since I’ve been there so many times in the past. If you’ve never been, it is worth a visit. Here is a series of photos from my last photo walk around the Capital Building.
Wonderful Dome
This is the entry to the Pennsylvanian building in downtown Pittsburgh. This building was originally a train and bus station. Today it is a event venue, office building and has apartments inside it.
Monastery in Kiev
When the world returns to normal, Blair wants to go back to Ukraine to visit Chernobyl again…and I’m ready as well. This is the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev. It has a Cathedral, bell tower, refectory and gates, which are all built in the Ukrainian Baroque Style.
Blair and I visited this spot while completing a huge photo walk around a number of historic locations in the city near the Dnieper River.
This is how it should look
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.
President Washington
Today, I have a drone photo for you that I took in downtown Washington Pennsylvania earlier this year.
Thanksgiving
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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GW In The Sky
I got out last night attempting to capture the sunset with my drone in downtown Washington PA. After the sun dropped below the horizon, I captured this great image of the George Washington statute on top of the Washington County Courthouse. Love that sky!!
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Capital (Night-Rear)
Tonight’s photo is the opposite of my last post. That was a daytime photo taken from the front of the U.S. Capital Building. This is a night photo taken from the opposite side.
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Marseille
What do you think of this cathedral? Or should I say, cathedral walls and ceiling? I couldn’t really get a good photo aimed lower due to the dozens of tourists in the way. So, I aimed higher to avoid them ruining my photo. This cathedral is the amazing Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde. Otherwise known as “the Mariners church”. It sits up on a large hill overlooking the city of Marseille France and the beautiful southern France coast.
The stripped interior design is very unique for a church or frankly any building interior. The inside also has a great collection of small scale boat models (donated by sailors) on shelves and hanging from the ceiling. The sailors give them upon returning from a dangerous trip or in advance to bring them safety. The construction was completed in 1864 with parts of it started in 1214. Amazing spot!!
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Statue of Freedom
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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Capital Building
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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Pennsylvania Classic
I need to hit this spot up again. The last time I was there, I only got about 10 minutes of shooting before we got kicked out. One of the neighbors called the police, who were very nice and just concerned about our safety. I’d like to have time to really capture this beauty properly.
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US Capital Building
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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Capital Building
I’ve traveled to Washington DC many times….maybe 15 times… maybe even over 20 times in my life (MJ and I will be back in DC again later this year). But I’ve never explored the Capital building or the area around it. So last night, I spent a few hours walking around this great facility. This probably isn’t the best photographic version of the building, but I like what I captured. It was extremely windy last night… something like 20 mile an hour wind. So it was difficult to capture a photo at night and not get trees to be blurry. But there wasn’t anything I could do about the wind. So you got blurry trees.
Regardless, it’s a great, impressive, powerful looking building. The photo doesn’t do it justice. I’m telling you…its impressive in person.
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U.S. Capital Building
Ceiling
Today’s photo is from the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. I took this photo during my last visit to Washington DC. I’d love to go back, but they now have a renovation projection going on that will take a few years. So it will be a while before the scaffolding comes down. Maybe I’ll go back in a few years.
Beyond the scaffolding, this is an amazing facility. It is the largest Roman Catholic Church in all of North America and is one of the largest churches in the world (its in the top ten). It has so many great sanctuary locations inside with over 70 chapels and oratories. Every chapel has a different style and design. You could spend days in this facility and not catch all the little details.
Anyway, this photo is of one of the many dome ceilings looking straight up at it. Have a great weekend.
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Renaissance Hotel Ceiling
Last spring I went on a photo walk with Blair, Dave and Brad. We explored some portions of downtown Pittsburgh. During that morning, we took over the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel to take pictures from every angle. The hotel staff and manager were great. They let us do our thing without any problems and even took us up to a room to take photos out the hotel windows. I may post a picture from that perspective/location at a future date.
This photo gives you a good look at the glass dome inside the beautiful lobby. Side note, I just processed this photo last night. So this photo sat on my hard drive for months just waiting for me to bring it to life. And now you get to experience it.
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Hotel Glass Dome Ceiling
Washington County Courthouse
I hope everyone had a great Christmas. A while back, Dave Truxell and I spent a little time exploring this facility. For a fairly rural county, Washington County in Pennsylvania has a wonderful courthouse. It isn’t as big as some state capital buildings, but it could compete with them on architectural details and style.
This photo is of the upper level and dome. I had a great time photographing this building and I truly appreciate the foresight the county planners had when they selected this design and built it back in 1900.
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Look Up
Tonight I have a ceiling for you. This is the dome ceiling from within the Washington County
Court House building. The interior
of this facility was renovated in the last year. The building was actually the 4th courthouse for the county
and was built in 1900. I hope you
like it.
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