Tagged: D.C.
The crowds are back inside Eastern Market
Eastern Market on Capitol Hill had its grand reopening this weekend, two years after a fire destroyed the historic market and shops. Produce, meat, seafood, flower and craft vendors moved back to the restored brick building to thousands of waiting (and hungry) customers packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
An artistic tribute along the Red Line
Above-ground sections of the D.C. Metro, particularly on the Red Line, are notorious for graffiti. It’s everywhere. Ranging from legitimate art to trashy expressions of gang symbols, the walls along the train tracks are essentially an ever-changing landscape of colored paint. With that in mind, I wasn’t at all surprised to discover a brand-new Michael Jackson tribute emblazoned on the inbound side of the Brookland-CUA station on Sunday, just two days after MJ’s death. While graffitists tend to paint over each other’s work periodically and public works crews work feverishly to sanitize surfaces, I have a feeling that this one, much like the Sean Taylor memorial on the other side of the platform, will remain untouched for quite some time.
Despite living in the D.C. area for almost 20 years and being involved with photography for most of the last decade, I had never photographed the monuments on the National Mall at sunset before this week. Watching the light change from daylight through dusk to twilight from the base of the Lincoln Memorial was quite spectacular. For more photos from the Mall, check out my Flickr set here.
The first test for my brand-new D700 was the U.S. Botanic Garden, located on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In the rush to play with my new toy, I pretty much forgot to take notes on the names of the flowers I was photographing, so I have no idea what these little pretties actually are. For more photos from the gardens, check out my Flickr set here.
We’d planned on going to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park for days in advance as part of Chris’s D.C. sightseeing tour, but it was a bonus to learn that the Fujifilm Giant Panda Exhibit, home to the zoo’s three pandas, was reopening just hours before our visit. The exhibit had been closed for several weeks due to the annual “let’s try and artificially inseminate this panda and then wait three months to see if we’ll have a cute baby panda” experiment. Result: Fail, for the third straight year.