I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend. We did! Got a nice Saturday-morning bike ride in, spent some QT with the siblings (managing somehow to stay up until 4:30am), and threw our first party & BBQ since moving into our new place. Great success! Although apparently we didn’t take too many photos during any of this… So I’m posting up an oldie, but goodie, metro lights shot taken with a Windsor camera.
It’s certainly not the first Marilyn photo we’ve posted, nor will it be the last, but this one is a little more subtle. The way it’s photographed, it would definitely make for a great film noir setting, right at the corner of Calvert and Connecticut… There’s a lot of lights on, yet the sidewalks look pretty empty. Hmmm.
Last year this time, we were just getting back from a weekend trip to Philly…
We’ve posted about watching the airplanes at Gravelly Point previously, and now here is one of Matt’s oldie-but-goodie night shots, taken in October of 2006. I think it’s a little too cold to spend an evening out there now, especially with hands out of pockets taking pictures…
Today marks the beginning of what is sure to be a crazy inauguration weekend!! I noticed that traffic into the city last night was already picking up (maybe since many hotels required a 4+ night stay?) and I’m positive tonight will be even worse. Maybe the low temps of 8 degrees F will keep some people inside… Anyways, coming up on Sunday is a free inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial, although it’s during the afternoon and presumably on the opposite side of the memorial, not the back side as seen in the photo. Artists that are going to be there include: Bono, Beyonce, Mary J Blige, Bruce, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Usher, Shakira, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, and a few others that I missed from the list. Most importantly, Jennifer Nettles (from Sugarland) will be there!!!! –though I might be the only person in DC excited about her and/or country music at this time. Hopefully her act will not be conflicting with Sunday fun-day football…
This is taken from the south side of the WWII Memorial looking towards the Washington Monument.
My mom had been planning a “something-I-can’t-tell-you-yet” Christmas present surprise for a few weeks now, and yesterday we finally found out what it was. We were picked up by car and, after following the directions of the Garmin, we arrived at Arena Stage to see a performance of Next to Normal. The picture above shows the main stage set, which was, besides the songs, truly one of the coolest parts of the show.
I don’t go to see theater shows very much, but every time I do, I say to myself, “You should go see more shows.” Then I also walk around for the next three days pretending and wishing I was good at singing…
Looking down into the abyss I mean metro entrance…. Yikes.
What is better than messing around with Christmas lights, long exposures, closed apertures, and a zoom lens? Not much my friend, not much. Hey, that is even how we came up with our handy dandy logo (with a bit of color tweaking in PS).
…it is the little things…
My cousin and I went to Zoo Lights at the National Zoo, and even though it was freeeeezing cold, we had a blast. The zoo is kept open late from 6-8p and is filled with colorful LED animal light displays, and most of the animal houses are open. Most of the gorillas were sleeping when we walked through — I guess that is normally their bedtime, and they weren’t staying up for nothing. 
Matt has titled this image, “clothed ascending an escalator”. I enjoy all the wobbly blur of people on the left side of this photo — those that were brave enough to try and walk up the monster of an escalator that is at Woodley Park Zoo.
