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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Not much to say about this. It is, what it is! Washington D.C. on a windy night.
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I couldn’t think of a clever name for this blog post. Frankly, I’ve never been good at that. I see other photographers posting extremely clever names for their photos and blog posts. That’s just not me. I guess I’m just not that funny. How would you label this post?
Regardless of the title, I really like this photo of the National Mall in Washington D.C. I got extremely lucky to find this spot without dozens of tourists standing in my photo.
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Happy MLK day (national holiday in the United States.) I took this photo during one of my last trips to Washington D.C. This is a great and underrated national monument.
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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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I took this picture last year while I was in Washington DC
for Baldrige Examiner training. I
wanted to post something tonight from an area I haven’t shared with you
recently. So I went back in
time….at least a little bit.
When I showed this picture to MJ tonight, she called it a “Brook Picture”…..whatever that means. Hopefully that’s a good thing. It really doesn’t matter, because I like the picture.
Facts about the Lincoln Memorial:
Built to honor our 16th President….shocker right?????
Architect of building (Greek Doric Temple style): Henry Bacon
Sculptor of statue: Daniel Chester French
Dedicated in 1922
Facts about my picture:
HDR final image was created with three auto-bracketed images of +1, 0, -1 exposure values (EV).
You can see the original three photos displayed at the bottom.
I merged the images together using Photomatix Pro and then I edited the photo within Photoshop CS6.
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HDR image with 3 auto-bracketed images used to create the final product.
About a year ago, I spent four days outside the Washington DC area for work. On two of those evenings, I drove into the city to photograph the monuments and government buildings. On the second night, I had Kuruvilla Markose with me, who was visiting from India for the same work event. We had a great time walking around the monuments taking photographs and talking about our countries and cultures.
We planned to be at the Lincoln Memorial around sunset. I have taken photos of it in the past, but not at sunset and I thought it might be cool. What I wasn’t planning on was the massive amount of people there at that time of day. It was covered with so many people, it reminded me of an angry anthill. Regardless, I got some great photos that night and wanted to share one with you.
* Abraham Lincoln was our 16th President
* Architect was Henry Bacon
* Dedicated in 1922
* Built in the form of a Greek Doric temple
* Includes inscriptions of The Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address
* The spot where Martin Luther King delivered the “I Have A Dream” speech is marked and dated.
* It is open 24/7 to the public
I took this picture before I had my Nikon D800. So I took this with my Nikon D90 and my 14-24mm lens. This is a 3-exposure bracket set (+2, 0, -2). I merged the images using Photomatix Pro and edited it in Photoshop CS6. I took this with the tripod and I balancing on top of a four-foot tall pillar (security barrier). I stood on the pillar to get my camera above the heads of all the people. I wasn’t at risk of falling or anything, but I thought the security guards for the National Park Service might force me to get down. In the end, they never said a word to me.
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