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April 06, 2024 - Spring is back and here in Washington, D.C., that means cherry blossoms. As I do every year, I ventured out to the Tidal...

January 17, 2024 - Winter hit us here in Washington, D.C., and on Monday and Tuesday it actually snowed! I couldn't pass up the opportunity...

December 17, 2023 - Happy holidays everyone! Above is the United States Capitol and the 2023 United States Capitol Christmas Tree. The tree...

August 22, 2023 - This year, I celebrated Independence Day with friends and family in the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. We were...

March 28, 2023 - The cherry trees in Washington, D.C., are in bloom and that means that winter has come to an end and spring is here. Win...

December 06, 2022 - Here's the last of my fall foliage posts. I took these photos on a glorious morning at the Tidal Basin. The trees were c...

November 16, 2022 - Here are a couple of photos from Rock Creek in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. I'm doing my best to capture the beauty...

November 08, 2022 - Today is Election Day in the United States and there also happened to be a total lunar eclipse this morning—a very rare...

April 20, 2022 - Hello Spring. I'm glad you're finally here, but do you think you could warm up a bit? It has been awfully chilly. But do...

May 27, 2021 - A couple of weeks ago, NASA had scheduled to launch a rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. I thought it...

April 09, 2021 - This year, winter in Washington was long and dreary. We had lots of that hybrid rain and snow that we call “wintry mix.”...

December 11, 2020 - Every year, I try to shoot the Capitol Christmas Tree. Usually I shoot it just after sunset, when the tree lights are on...

November 16, 2020 - Sometimes when you hear or read about ugly things in the news, it's nice to go outside and watch a sunrise. It can be a...

November 05, 2020 - Autumn is now in full swing here in Washington, D.C. The leaves take a little longer to turn here because the weather st...

October 01, 2020 - The autumnal equinox was on September 22 and it marked the beginning of fall for the Northern Hemisphere. It's a notable...

September 14, 2020 - I took this photo of the Capitol after a recent rainstorm. The glass in the foreground is from one of the big skylights...

June 21, 2020 - So, I got a new ultra-wide angle lens, the Fujinon XF8-16mmF2.8 R LM WR. I've been very excited to play with it. 8mm is...

May 05, 2020 - On May 2, the United States Air Force demonstration squadron (the Thunderbirds) and the United States Navy demonstration...

March 26, 2020 - The cherry blossoms are in bloom at the Tidal Basin here in Washington, D.C. We've all been self-quarantining at home, l...

December 06, 2019 - Fall came late this year and it seems to be leaving early. It has already started getting cold and cloudy. I'm not ready...

July 08, 2019 - I recently had the opportunity to go on a tour of the dome of the Capitol. It was a great experience. We climbed more th...

April 14, 2019 - I was back at the Tidal Basin on the 4th with my family and took this photo. The water level in the Tidal Basin was unus...

April 09, 2019 - It's spring and here in Washington, D.C., that means cherry blossoms! It also means lots of tourists and terrible traffi...

February 01, 2019 - It's snowing again today, so I thought I might share some more photos from our last big snowstorm, which happened a coup...

January 16, 2019 - Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. It was also the first mostly clear day after a big snowstorm. So I went...

December 18, 2018 - Happy holidays! Above is a photo of the 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree in front of the United States Capitol, here in Wa...

December 09, 2018 - Autumn is finally here. The trees around Washington, D.C., appeared to reach their peak color around Thanksgiving. This...

July 08, 2018 - Independence Day this year was miserably hot and humid, but the fireworks were fantastic! This year I sat on the steps o...

June 19, 2018 - I recently visited the National Gallery of Art, here in Washington, D.C. and really liked this 14½ -foot sculpture of a...

April 15, 2018 - Spring is here again and like I do when spring arrives every year, I went out to shoot the cherry blossoms. I had severa...

April 09, 2018 - Last Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I was at the Martin Luther King J...

March 26, 2018 - In March, I love to shoot the monuments in Washington, D.C. The vernal equinox is in March, so the sun rises directly in...

January 07, 2018 - We didn't get a lot of snow from the bomb cyclone here in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, but we sure did get s...

December 23, 2017 - Happy holidays everyone! I shot this yesterday. The 2017 Capitol Christmas Tree is an Engelmann Spruce from the Kootenai...

July 08, 2017 - Happy Independence Day everyone!

March 31, 2017 - In Washington, we know spring is here when the cherry trees bloom and the tourists swarm the city. As I do every year, I...

December 18, 2016 - Happy holidays, everyone! Here are my annual photos of the United States Capitol Christmas Tree. This year's tree is an...

October 04, 2016 - Fall began with the autumnal equinox on September 22. The day after, the sun rose directly up the H Street corridor in W...

September 18, 2016 - I had another occasion to go out and shoot a sunrise. I went back across the river to Arlington and timed it so that I c...

August 23, 2016 - Good morning, Washington!

August 04, 2016 - This week, a corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) bloomed at the United States Botanic Garden. It's an enormous and ra...

July 26, 2016 - A couple of weeks ago, I went to Kenilworth to shoot the lotus flowers. While I was there, I also saw lots of dragonflie...

July 18, 2016 - I recently visited Rock Creek Park for a short hike along Rock Creek. I encountered some tree blossoms at Rapids Bridge.

June 09, 2016 - Not too long ago, I was approached by Capital Concerts to license one of my photos for promotion of PBS's A Capitol Four...

June 04, 2016 - Recently, I was in my three-year-old son's room. I had decorated his room with various photos of our family and wildlife...

April 23, 2016 - I have a couple of additional cherry blossom photos to share with everyone. I like this one (above) of the Martin Luther...

April 05, 2016 - In my last blog post, I featured a photo taken just before the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin had reached peak bloom. A...

March 30, 2016 - The cherry blossom bloom at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., can be magical. I look forward to it every year. Someti...

March 27, 2016 - The cherry blossoms are coming! Actually, that was true when I took this photo on Tuesday, but it has taken me several d...

February 08, 2016 - When I heard, before the storm, that we were going to get some snow, I got excited. I thought I might drive out to Shena...

February 03, 2016 - In my last blog entry, I wrote about how warm the weather was at Christmas. Just a month later things have really change...

September 30, 2015 - Last week I published some photos of a sunset at the Lincoln Memorial just a few days before the Autumnal Equinox. I had...

September 22, 2015 - A while back, I decided I wanted to take some photos of the sun setting behind the Lincoln Memorial with the Reflecting...

September 06, 2015 - I made another trip to Kenilworth recently. One normally doesn't think to shoot flowers in August, when everything else...

July 13, 2015 - Every year on Independence Day, I shoot the fireworks here in Washington, D.C. This year was unique for two reasons. Fir...

July 01, 2015 - Whenever I visit the National Zoo, I always swing by the giant pandas. Unfortunately, the pandas aren't nearly as cooper...

June 07, 2015 - A while back, I posted a photo from my cherry blossom shoot this year. It has taken me a while, but I finally completed...

May 14, 2015 - On May 8, 2015, the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, a diverse array of World War II aircraft flew over t...

April 27, 2015 - The cherry blossoms made their annual brief appearance here in Washington a couple of weeks ago. As I do every year, I s...

April 04, 2015 - Spring arrived, but it certainly didn't feel like it. It snowed here on the first day of spring. Fortunately, the weathe...

March 13, 2015 - It has been dreadfully cold here in Washington. About week ago, I had the opportunity to rise early and traipse out into...

December 21, 2014 - Happy holidays and a happy new year to everyone! This year for my annual holiday blog post, I took two photos. The firs...

November 16, 2014 - It's getting cold here. Winter is still a month away, but with the colder temperatures and the trees mostly bare, it doe...

July 06, 2014 - This year, I celebrated Independence Day by watching the fireworks over the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial...

April 16, 2014 - For me, living in Washington, DC, the start of spring is marked by the bloom of the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin.

February 20, 2014 - We've had yet another snowstorm here in Washington. While others may dread the snow and all of the inconveniences snow e...

January 25, 2014 - We've had a bit more snow here in Washington. It's hard to appreciate the additional snow, however, since it is very col...

January 06, 2014 - The Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated on October 14, 2006. I've been meaning to shoot it for a wh...

December 14, 2013 - In the spirit of the holidays, I took two photos of the Capitol and the 2013 Capitol Christmas Tree. The first is a phot...

November 10, 2013 - Recently, I set out to shoot the fall foliage around the Tidal Basin. However, the skies were so dramatic that I ended u...

November 04, 2013 - I was walking along Rock Creek the other day and came across this turtle. It was one of those shots of opportunity. I li...

October 24, 2013 - We're just starting to get some fall color here in Washington, D.C. Until recently, it had been dry and warm. Now it's r...

September 25, 2013 - The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. The Harvest Moon can occur anywhere from two weeks be...

September 09, 2013 - Everyone loves a dragonfly. They're colorful, graceful, and deadly killers: African lions roar and strut and act the ap...

September 02, 2013 - Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens is one of those places I find myself visiting frequently. Usually, when I visit the gardens,...

July 06, 2013 - Thursday was Independence Day and, as I usually do on the 4th of July, I made my way to the Capitol to shoot the firewor...

June 18, 2013 - In September, I took a photo of the Capitol during the blue hour (the period of twilight each morning and evening when t...

June 07, 2013 - I made another visit to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens recently. It seems the flowers are blooming a bit late this year. Non...

June 01, 2013 - I made a number of trips to the zoo recently. While I particularly had fun shooting the new Andean bear cubs, I also enj...

May 14, 2013 - Early in the morning on December 13, 2012, Billie Jean, the female Andean bear at the Smithsonian National Zoo, gave bir...

April 30, 2013 - Dawn is a magical time for me as a photographer. While the sun hasn't yet risen above the horizon, it shines just enough...

April 24, 2013 - A couple of weeks ago, I went to photograph the cherry blossoms. It was bittersweet because of my father's recent death.

April 05, 2013 - Yesterday, I got up very early to shoot the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin. The revised estimate of the National Par...

April 02, 2013 - I enjoy large open spaces with lots of natural light and plenty of greenery. That's something one very rarely finds indo...

March 24, 2013 - The primary feature of the gigantic atrium in the Hart Senate Office Building is a huge sculpture and mobile by Alexande...

March 17, 2013 - Last weekend, the weather forecast predicted partly cloudy conditions. Thinking we might have a nice sunset, I headed ov...

February 09, 2013 - Last weekend was a big weekend for photography. Besides shooting the Capitol Columns at the National Arboretum on Friday...

February 03, 2013 - I'm a big fan of cumulus clouds. Unfortunately, it seems we only get great skies here in Washington when I'm stuck in th...

January 20, 2013 - Tomorrow is Inauguration Day, upon which President Obama will be sworn in for a second term as President of the United S...

December 24, 2012 - Merry Christmas! The following are a few photos of the Capitol and the 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. This year, the...

December 10, 2012 - Last year, I visited Washington National Cathedral to shoot some panoramic interiors. I recently restitched them using s...

December 06, 2012 - My image of a sunset over a snowy Washington Monument was recently accepted by the editors at Getty Images and added to...

December 04, 2012 - The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is an incredibly beautiful building. I had the opportunity to p...

November 29, 2012 - I love libraries and recently I was talking with a friend about libraries in DC and he mentioned that he thought the Mar...

November 21, 2012 - Happy Thanksgiving! I took this photo of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial last weekend at the Tidal Basin here in Washingt...

November 15, 2012 - The other day, I was on 14th St. NW, between Meridian Hill Park and Columbia Heights, enjoying some beautiful fall weath...

November 04, 2012 - This weekend, I spent some time roaming around shooting urban landscapes. I particularly like how this photo of rush hou...

October 22, 2012 - Last weekend, I went out on the National Mall with the intention of shooting some urban landscapes. I've always liked th...

October 02, 2012 - Last weekend I decided to shoot an urban landscape. I've seen some nice shots of the Washington skyline from across the...

September 22, 2012 - In 2008, Congress opened the Capitol Visitor Center to serve as a visitor center for both the Capitol and the city. The...

September 09, 2012 - In August, we had two full moons. By modern folklore, that makes the second full moon (above) a "blue moon" (the second...

August 04, 2012 - A couple of weeks ago, I went to the National Zoo. I love shooting lions. They're probably my favorite subjects at the z...

July 22, 2012 - I normally associate flowers with spring. However, summer seems to be a great time to shoot freshwater flowers. I recen...

July 06, 2012 - Happy Independence Day, everyone! Every year, I look forward to seeing fireworks on July 4—especially now that I've figu...

July 02, 2012 - Friday night, I was out shooting the DC skyline from across the Potomac when my wife called to tell me that a major stor...

June 13, 2012 - The lotuses weren't the only things worth seeing at Kenilworth last weekend. The dragonflies were quite active. I'm not...

June 10, 2012 - Summer is almost here and the lotuses and water lilies are starting to bloom at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens....

April 28, 2012 - Twice each year, the public is invited to tour the gardens outside the White House. My wife and I were able to get ticke...

April 21, 2012 - On Tuesday, NASA transferred the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center to its new resting home at the Smiths...

April 04, 2012 - In my last post, I mentioned how I visited the Tidal Basin to shoot the cherry blossoms at sunrise. Well, I returned lat...

March 31, 2012 - On Thursday, I made my annual trip to the Tidal Basin to shoot the cherry blossoms. I arrived very early in the morning...

March 01, 2012 - On President's Day, I went across the Potomac to take some photos of the Washington skyline at night. I think this one t...

February 19, 2012 - I took this photo Friday evening while standing in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. In the very cent...

January 22, 2012 - One of the less frequented but very picturesque places in Washington, DC, is the National Arboretum. I'm quite taken wit...

January 15, 2012 - We still have no snow here in Washington, DC. Because winter landscapes without snow can be a bit dull, I decided to try...

December 25, 2011 - I took this photo of the Capitol Christmas Tree on the 22nd. It was pouring rain, which explains the color of the sky. T...

December 01, 2011 - Now that the leaves are all off the trees, it's clear that winter is coming. I can't wait to take some winter landscape...

November 11, 2011 - Autumn is in full swing here in Washington, D.C. The fall foliage has made its way down from the mountains and into the...

July 07, 2011 - Lately, I've been interested in creating panoramas. I've been reading up on the subject and found a wonderful open sourc...

June 07, 2011 - I love bird and wildlife photos and I think they're the best when they display some context. I took this photo last week...

May 06, 2011 - Last Sunday, Melissa attended a baby shower near Rock Creek Park. I gave her a ride to the shower and, despite the fact...

April 24, 2011 - Since Congress is out of session for the Easter holiday, I was able to get off work a little early on Thursday and head...

March 29, 2011 - In 1912, the City of Tokyo donated more than 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C. Many of the cherry trees were plante...

March 20, 2011 - On Saturday, we experienced an unusually large moon known as a "super moon" or a super "perigee moon". A super moon is w...

March 20, 2011 - On Friday, Washington, D.C., experienced a full worm moon. The worm moon rose behind the Capitol and traveled across the...

January 26, 2011 - Last weekend I spent some time exploring the Capitol with my new ultra- wide-angle lens (Nikon 10-24mm). All of these we...

January 24, 2011 - In my last blog entry, I posted a photo of Alexander Calder's Mountains and Clouds sculpture, which is located in the at...

January 10, 2011 - Inside the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, you will find the last sculpture and mobile by the famous American...

December 20, 2010 - We’re having a white Christmas here in Washington, DC. It snowed last Thursday. While nothing like the major blizzard th...

October 01, 2010 - On the Sept 22, we were supposed to get a beautiful harvest moon rising over the Capitol and then across the National Ma...

September 23, 2010 - Moon rising over the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Yesterday, on the day before the...

August 21, 2010 - I got up early Wednesday morning to visit the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens. I had hoped to shoot waterlilies at s...

August 19, 2010 - On Monday, Melissa and I got up early to go hiking in Rock Creek Park. It’s been very hot and humid here, so even though...

May 16, 2010 - On Sunday, I visited the National Zoo here in Washington, D.C. I’ve been to the zoo before, but I wasn’t thrilled with m...

April 03, 2010 - Close-up of cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin. Last weekend was the peak for cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin.

February 06, 2010 - On Saturday, February 6, 2010, Washington, D.C., got hit with Snowmageddon, the second major storm of the 2009-2010 wint...

December 08, 2009 - On December 19, 2009, a large storm dumped 14 inches of snow on Washington, DC. This storm was nicknamed the "Snowpocaly...