Photograph
28 September 2010

Washington
Sunset
Prints
Flight Over Washington The feeling of paranoia in seeing a sunset is not nearly as high as it use to be when I first started photographing because back then, the impression was that no decent photographs can ever be taken once that bright light in the sky settled. Of course that’s not true and if capturing landscapes is your specialty, there’s no better moment than sticking around for the gold hours of dawn and dusk which happen to fall upon us as we walked back to our car after a long exhausting day of walking around Washington. When you find yourself by the Lincoln Memorial, the opportunity to capture an airplane in flight is guaranteed because the airport is apparently close to all the major landmarks.

Flight Over Washington

The feeling of paranoia in seeing a sunset is not nearly as high as it use to be when I first started photographing because back then, the impression was that no decent photographs can ever be taken once that bright light in the sky settled.

Of course that’s not true and if capturing landscapes is your specialty, there’s no better moment than sticking around for the gold hours of dawn and dusk which happen to fall upon us as we walked back to our car after a long exhausting day of walking around Washington. When you find yourself by the Lincoln Memorial, the opportunity to capture an airplane in flight is guaranteed because the airport is apparently close to all the major landmarks.

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Photograph
24 September 2010

Washington
Landmark
Prints
Washington Monument Obelisk Currently in existence today, there’s 3 major obelisk in the world and 2 of them are located in the United States. The first major one was constructed in St.Peter’s Square in Rome and it’s said that it’s placed in a way where every Pope who addresses any crowd in the square must face the obelisk as well. I take pleasure in saying that I had the opportunity to photograph it while we visited Rome. The second obelisk was brought from Egypt in 1881 and placed in Central Park in New York. I’ve passed it on several occasions while bike riding and if your curiosity was as big as mine to visit it, it’s located directly behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art once you enter the park. The third obelisk is no other than the Washington Monument in DC which was built to commemorate our 1st president who happen to be a Freemason. According to Masonic tradition, it’s said that the symbolism behind the monument was to show that the country was controlled by Freemasonry since the beginning and if you take the time to study the details of this landmark, you’ll noticed that it has Freemasonry stamped all over it. I have friends who are completely obsessed with all this Freemasonry conspiracies and my curiosity for it peaked after reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol along with the rest of his books.

Washington Monument Obelisk

Currently in existence today, there’s 3 major obelisk in the world and 2 of them are located in the United States. The first major one was constructed in St.Peter’s Square in Rome and it’s said that it’s placed in a way where every Pope who addresses any crowd in the square must face the obelisk as well. I take pleasure in saying that I had the opportunity to photograph it while we visited Rome.

The second obelisk was brought from Egypt in 1881 and placed in Central Park in New York. I’ve passed it on several occasions while bike riding and if your curiosity was as big as mine to visit it, it’s located directly behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art once you enter the park.

The third obelisk is no other than the Washington Monument in DC which was built to commemorate our 1st president who happen to be a Freemason. According to Masonic tradition, it’s said that the symbolism behind the monument was to show that the country was controlled by Freemasonry since the beginning and if you take the time to study the details of this landmark, you’ll noticed that it has Freemasonry stamped all over it.

I have friends who are completely obsessed with all this Freemasonry conspiracies and my curiosity for it peaked after reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol along with the rest of his books.

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Photograph
19 September 2010

Washington
Landmark
Prints
The Capitol Building You may not necessarily be a history buff but the core reason to visit Washington DC is for you to walk away having received at least a brief lessen in American History by touring museums, memorials and monuments. My wife and I made the 4hr drive down from New York because prior to that, her familiarity with anything in this small-big city was based off books and movies and not necessarily on a first hand experience. I’ve read it’s one of the must see places in the U.S and while the same is said about London or Paris, for some reason I’m more inclined to want to go abroad to enrich myself with foreign history than to appreciate the one we have in the states. Sounds uncanny but it’s true. Nevertheless, we enjoyed the long evening walks, the quaint affluent neighborhoods and also visiting most of the Smithsonian Museum which there was an added incentive to do so since admission is free of charge. As for the Capitol Building, I was in dire need to explore it as much as a tourist could since I was in a mission to recreate scenes from Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.

The Capitol Building

You may not necessarily be a history buff but the core reason to visit Washington DC is for you to walk away having received at least a brief lessen in American History by touring museums, memorials and monuments.

My wife and I made the 4hr drive down from New York because prior to that, her familiarity with anything in this small-big city was based off books and movies and not necessarily on a first hand experience. I’ve read it’s one of the must see places in the U.S and while the same is said about London or Paris, for some reason I’m more inclined to want to go abroad to enrich myself with foreign history than to appreciate the one we have in the states. Sounds uncanny but it’s true.

Nevertheless, we enjoyed the long evening walks, the quaint affluent neighborhoods and also visiting most of the Smithsonian Museum which there was an added incentive to do so since admission is free of charge. As for the Capitol Building, I was in dire need to explore it as much as a tourist could since I was in a mission to recreate scenes from Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.

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