Washington DC - More Downtown

This April the family traveled to Washington, D.C. for Spring Break. We enjoyed absolutely gorgeous Spring weather while we explored the city and its many museums and monuments. According to the Fitbit, we covered approximately 20 miles in our three and a half day visit that included the National Mall, the National Archives, the Smithsonian's Natural History and Air & Space Museum, the National Zoo, the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, the International Spy Museum, and many other sites and sounds along the way.

For the trip, I brought along the Fuji X100s and a couple of 32GB flash cards amassing just shy of 1000 images throughout the week. All the photographs were shot handheld and often times in very challenging lighting conditions. I primarily shot at F2.8 and F4.0 indoors, while stopping down to F8.0 and F11.0 on occasion when outdoors. 

Above, the Starbucks sign in the Grand Hyatt hotel and my son posing in front of the future Trump Hotel ... backstory ... all trip my son took pleasure in trying to work my wife and I up with the thought of Trump becoming president, so I was able to get him to pose in front of the sign for a pictorial reminder of his youthful ignorance one day in the future.

Below is the lobby of the Grand Hyatt hotel.

The International Spy museum was well worth the visit.

Reflections downtown.

Interesting colors captured walking back to our hotel early evening.

A close-up detail shot from our walks downtown.

A Bentley and a Rolls Royce (behind).

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Washington DC - Smithsonian Institute's Natural History Museum

This April the family traveled to Washington, D.C. for Spring Break. We enjoyed absolutely gorgeous Spring weather while we explored the city and its many museums and monuments. According to the Fitbit, we covered approximately 20 miles in our three and a half day visit that included the National Mall, the National Archives, the Smithsonian's Natural History and Air & Space Museum, the National Zoo, the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, the International Spy Museum, and many other sites and sounds along the way.

For the trip, I brought along the Fuji X100s and a couple of 32GB flash cards amassing just shy of 1000 images throughout the week. All the photographs were shot handheld and often times in very challenging lighting conditions. I primarily shot at F2.8 and F4.0 indoors, while stopping down to F8.0 and F11.0 on occasion when outdoors. 

On Sunday, we visited the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of Natural History. One can spend hours in the Hall of Human Origins alone.

Two of my favorite photos from our trip were taken here. The first was taken in the National Geographic's Best of the Best Nature Photography Twentieth Anniversary gallery. There were some exceptional photographs on display. I was fortunate to come across a young lady completely absorbed in the Youth Photography category included below. The second was a very large print of a animal in a tree and I asked my son to stand below it and look up; one of the few times during the trip I could get either of children to pose for me.

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Washington DC - Downtown

Presbyterian Church on New York Ave

This April the family traveled to Washington, D.C. for Spring Break. We enjoyed absolutely gorgeous Spring weather while we explored the city and its many museums and monuments. According to the Fitbit, we covered approximately 20 miles in our three and a half day visit that included the National Mall, the National Archives, the Smithsonian's Natural History and Air & Space Museum, the National Zoo, the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, the International Spy Museum, and many other sites and sounds along the way.

For the trip, I brought along the Fuji X100s and a couple of 32GB flash cards amassing just shy of 1000 images throughout the week. All the photographs were shot handheld and often times in very challenging lighting conditions. I primarily shot at F2.8 and F4.0 indoors, while stopping down to F8.0 and F11.0 on occasion when outdoors. 

This is the second post consisting of images taken in downtown Washington D.C. as we made our way from one location to another.

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Fords Theatre at night

The house where Lincoln died

The National Archives ... no photography inside

Statues and monuments everywhere. The General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

The Capital Building

Washington DC - The National Mall

The Washington Monument at sunset

This April the family traveled to Washington, D.C. for Spring Break. We enjoyed absolutely gorgeous Spring weather while we explored the city and its many museums and monuments. According to the Fitbit, we covered approximately 20 miles in our three and a half day visit that included the National Mall, the National Archives, the Smithsonian's Natural History and Air & Space Museum, the National Zoo, the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, the International Spy Museum, and many other sites and sounds along the way.

For the trip, I brought along the Fuji X100s and a couple of 32GB flash cards amassing just shy of 1000 images throughout the week. All the photographs were shot handheld and often times in very challenging lighting conditions. I primarily shot at F2.8 and F4.0 indoors, while stopping down to F8.0 and F11.0 on occasion when outdoors. 

Upon returning home and reviewing the images, I was quite happy with the results from the Fuji X100s. I intentionally left the Canon 7D Mark II home because I did now want to carry it and its lenses around all week. Overall this was a good choice, but I did miss the EF 100-400 at the National Zoo as the animals were quite active, including the pandas.

I will be breaking the images from the trip up into separate posts. Up first here are the images taken over a couple days from the National Mall and memorials.

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The Washington Monument from the World War II memorial

World War II memorial: Admiral Nimitz quote

World War II memorial: Quotes

World War II memorial

Lincoln Memorial at night

Lincoln Memorial 

The Washington Monument reflection in the reflecting pool from the Lincoln Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

Jefferson Memorial