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Memorials

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Cherry blossoms are in full bloom this week. I thought I was not going to see it, as it was delayed and delayed, and it was suppose to be in full bloom last week, but it was still cold and didn’t happen. So this week I think it is a mad house around Tidal Basin, more likely tens of thousands of people hang out around there. I must try to see it as well and add one more body to the count.

This photo was taken couple weeks ago from the top floor at Marriott Key Bridge hotel. Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial appears very close to each other, but in fact there is about 1.5 mile between them. This is visual effect achieved via compression, this happens when you use high focal length, it makes things look really close to each other.

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DC Cherry Blossoms are just around the corner, it should be in full bloom two weeks from now, March 26 to March 30. I took this photo last year on March 20th and plan to post maybe one or two from the last year, not sure if I’ll be able to make to Tidal Basin this year, I’ll try. Maybe you can too and we bump into each other not knowing it, as thousands of other visitors mingle around us.

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Cherry Blossoms

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This is my last one in this series, for now. I’ll look later in archive and see if any other photos are to my liking for sharing. When I went to take sunrise photos most people were taking photos of Jefferson Memorial across the Tidal Basin, with water included in the shot. I did the same, as you can see in my previous three photos. After taking those shuts, I went around the basin to find different angles on the memorial. On the other side of the basin there were no tourists and no photographers. After taking a few shots and trying different angles with trees, columns and rapidly rising sun I took this photo. I think it captures Cherry Blossoms with one of the most iconic American memorials in pretty cool way.

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Cherry Blossoms

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As I mentioned, I took a few photos of them and want to show most of them at this time in April. So here is another one.

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Cherry Blossoms

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This year, finally, I managed to take some pictures of the famous DC Cherry Blossoms. I landed in DCA at around 6:15AM and on my way to work stopped by the Tidal Basin and took a few sunrise photos. A few of them turned out pretty good, I like them a lot. It was actually fairly cold, near freezing and super windy, not the most pleasant time to scroll around and take photos. I only spent there around 45 minutes before sun got up and I had to leave for 9AM meeting in downtown DC. There was a good number of people there taking pictures, a lot of folks with tripods, wedding photography with brides half naked in cold trying to put natural smiles, students working on their art projects and some folks are just enjoying the scene. Well, since you were not there, here is a bit of magic for you to enjoy.

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