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

San Diego and the Coronado Bridge

The above image was photographed from my room in the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, Ca. I was fortunate to be in my room on one of the rare moments when the sun was partially visible the week of Jan 4-8, 2016. 

Shot handheld with the Fuji X100s, the image is a panorama composite of six images assembled in Adobe Lightroom CC.

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San Diego State University

While attending the 2016 AIAA SciTech conference in San Diego, Ca., I had the pleasure of visiting the campus of San Diego State University and their engineering facilities as a guest of a long-time colleague and friend who is now a faculty member at the university. It was a cool and wet afternoon, so we dodged the rain by running from building to building and stopping for a few minutes to have coffee.

The above image is of the iconic Hepner Hall. The image below is of the more recently built Aztec Student Union building. 

All images are shot with the Fuji X100s handheld and processed with Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro II.

Thanks to Xiaofeng Liu for being our gracious tour guide.

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The view from the Manchester Grand Hyatt in black and white

While attending the 2016 AIAA SciTech conference in San Diego, Ca., I stayed at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel. One afternoon on a lunch break, I took the above photo of my hotel room view and the Marriott hotel next door while getting caught up on email.

Photographed with the Fuji X100s handheld.

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Sunset at 37,000 Feet

A January sunset as seen from the window seat of a Boeing 737-700 while somewhere over the Midwest on my way to San Diego, Ca.

Photographed with the Fuji X100s.

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Paul Revere

On our recent trip to Boston to watch the Fighting Irish in the Shamrock Series game, we spent the afternoon walking the Freedom Trail from Quincy Market to Boston Commons. Above is the tomb stone of Paul Revere in the Granary Burying Ground.

The above image was shot handheld with the Fuji X100s. 

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