Dancers
Photo / Apr. 10, 2011
Freedom Plaza isn’t your typical dance venue, but it was Sunday afternoon. The music was latin in nature and similar to the tango. The young couple on the left was particularly amazing.
Marquis de Lafayette and pals
Photo / Apr. 10, 2011
OK, Layfayette isn’t actually in this picture since he’s on top of the pedestal. You’re looking at Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and Louis Lebègue Duportail. Both were military leaders in the American Revolution.
Magnolia mess
Photo / Apr. 9, 2011
Remember those tulip trees from last month? Well turns out they are not tulip trees, but Japanese magnolia or, more likely, saucer magnolia trees (a sturdier hybrid of Japanese magnolia and another tree.) Either way they’re trés beau when in bloom. That was a week ago — now comes the part when they make a huge mess and get tromped into goo on the sidewalks.
Old Post Office Pavilion
Photo / Apr. 4, 2011
The Treasury Building
Photo / Mar. 24, 2011
If you spend any time at all around Pennsylvania and 15th you know that tourists love to take pictures of the Treasury Building there on the corner. It’s a little funny because it’s just offices, and even the statue on the Penn Ave side is of a guy few have ever heard of save perhaps some economics and NYU wonks. (For the record, it’s Albert Gallatin, the fourth Secretary of the Treasury.) Yet the architecture, symmetry and scale make it the perfect quintessential “Washington” building, so you can’t help but take a quick photo. I probably have a dozen photos hiding in my Aperture library, and this morning I couldn’t resist … so now there’s one more.
Bike here
Photo / Mar. 23, 2011
I must have walked past this bike rack at the southern Dupont Circle Metro entrance a dozen times before I noticed the hidden, yet obvious message.
Landing at National
Photo / Feb. 13, 2011
I love National Airport because it’s super convenient, and sometimes if fortune’s on your side, you get amazing views like this as you land.