Washington Monument–Middle of the Day

Over the last few years I’ve been travelling to Washington DC area fairly often. During all that time I actually didn’t take many pictures, so about 6 month ago I decided to fix this problem and take some photos of our capital.

I took photo of Washington Monument from this spot on three different occasions, every time in very different conditions. So over the next three days I’ll post each of them in chronological order and let you decide which one you like most or not. I kind of like them all, but I’m biased, you know.

The first photo was taken in the middle of the day in July. It was hot and sticky out there, we walked DC for hours, our feet burned form hot asphalt and concrete side walks. We came to this monument and decided to relax for a few minutes. We actually took our shoes off and set on steps next to the pool and put our feet in the water. Perfect way to get them in order for a few more hours of walking… I was looking at the monument and kind of liked what I saw, the picture was born.

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Key Bridge Sunset

This photo was taken on the same bike ride when I took the US Capitol photo and then got soaked wet in the rain. I guess you can see that there was a potential for some rain on the horizon. I believed (again) weather man who said that it will go around DC. Anyway, I had to take a few shots to get airplane into the frame, they were coming down every few minutes, some small, some bit bigger. Depending on their size they had slightly different trajectory on their descent. I missed a big Airbus or Boeing, it was going nice and low, maybe some other day.

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US Capitol

Would you believe that five minutes after taking this photo I got soaked wet in huge thunder storm? Yep, it happened. The weather man said that thunder storms will safely bypass DC so without a second thought I got on the bike an went for some National Mall photos. It was all fine till around mid evening, then after taking this photo (and a few others) from the west side I went to the east side, and it came, first a few drops, then some sprinkling. OK, I thought that it should not be a problem, went under the cover to wait it over. Few minutes later it slowed down, I got on the bike and went back to my place. Then it really started to pour over. Like a hurricane, some kind of torrential storm, just buckets and buckets of water. I was the only person on the street.  After couple blocks, I was getting soaked wet and saw big building with cover up, so I pulled in to get some perspective of where I was and maybe wait through the rain. Ten minutes later rain was still going with its full strength, but I learned that I was only couple blocks from a metro station. There I went.

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Rolling Out

We have seen it empty, we have seen it coming. Now, it is time to see it roll out.

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Rolling In

Did you want to see the train? Well, here it is rolling in. Tomorrow we will see how it is leaving the station.

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