Earlier this month, my friend Pablo sent out an email around asking if anyone was interested in photographing the upcoming full moon. Pablo had seen, based on a local azimuth and altitude generator, that the full moon would be rising in the East. In particular, the moon was to rise above / next to the [...]
Friday night was the night before the official full moon of March, also known as the Worm Moon. Since the Moon was set to rise at an angle that would put it between the US Capitol Dome and the base of the Washington Monument, the DC Social Flickr group held a meet-up to photograph it [...]
On my tour of the US Capitol, we were able to view the interior of the Rotunda — the huge dome that sits atop the building. Since it was a weekday morning, the tours were pretty small, thus we were able to spread out a little. As our tour guide yammered on about the commissioned [...]
Formerly the meeting hall for the US House of Representatives, this two-story hall now houses the main collection of the US Capitol’s National Statuary Collection. The acoustics of this hall cause it to have two “whispering spots.” When strategically standing in the right places, two people could talk to each other from across the room [...]
Earlier this week I found myself in Capitol Hill. As I wandered around, the early (more like mid-morning) light falling on the eastern side of the US Capitol was just great. I couldn’t help but to walk over and snap a few postcard photos of the landmark. The clear sky was still a nice deep [...]