DC through my lens

Just so we're clear, Adam's a pretty decent photographer. His experience as an artist (incredibly talented painter!) serve him well in the photographic medium. But I took the better equipment home with me. ;) Though he tried hard to talk me into leaving it! Love that boy, but I have plans for that camera this weekend! As previously mentioned, while the guys were at the rally, I hooked up with some of my photographer friends in Georgetown. After a tasty and fun lunch at Filomena, we headed out to play with our cameras a bit.

Kim let me try out her 35mm L lens. (Canon shooters will appreciate the deliciousness of this!)


Then Michele suggested I check out her 20mm wide angle lens - WHOA! Everything fits in the frame!


Including my toes!


After hanging with them until about 6pm, I jumped back the metro to meet up with the guys. We grabbed a quick Qdoba dinner and headed out to tour the monuments at night. We took the scenic route which is how the poor dad ended up with blisters nearly the size of my palm! I was beat from walking around Georgetown, but got some cool shots that night.

Capitol Building


Washington Monument from the side we approached (opposite Lincoln)


Washington Monument + Vietnam War Memorial


There are lots more on my computer, but this is it so far! Enjoy!

Day 7 - Philadelphia, PA to Washington DC

We woke up in Philly on Friday morning and eventually got ourselves out of the hotel. It took us a couple of tries, but we got tickets to see Independence Hall at 12:30pm. What an incredible place! It's building that's stood for centuries. It's probably the oldest building I've ever been in. So cool.

First room on the tour, pretty sure it was a courtroom.

Detail on the interior of the first room

LOVED this roman shade in the second room!

One of the rooms upstairs.

Guns! (also upstairs)

Loved this piano!

Exterior

Shot I grabbed from the freeway as we were leaving Philly

We had to go through...

To get to...

After checking into our hotel in MD, Dad and I jumped on the metro (went the wrong way one stop) and headed into the city to see what was going on down at the mall.

We hopped off the subway at Farragut North and walked down to the mall. We came in about here (WWII Memorial) -

The Lincoln Memorial was CRAWLING with people!

We had to get closer...

Caught this shot of the Washington Monument from the steps of Lincoln...

More to come from our other days in the city!