Washington DC Vacation Pictures

[FirehawkNS]

The Wife and I took her Mom and sister to Washington DC at the end of May. We took a little over 1700 pictures. Nothing special, mainly simple vacation shots. They will be out of order as we walked around the city a lot and I have the pictures divided up by day, so thats why they are not all together.
Enjoy.

First day.

Our Hotel from the Metro station
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Lincoln Memorial from Washington Monument with WWII memorial in between
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Washington Monument from WWII memorial
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WWII memorial
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One of my favorite quotes from WWII. There were many quotes all around the memorial.
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A plaque under this says "Here we mark the price of Freedom"
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First Day Continued

Standing at the Lincoln memorial Zoomed 432mm.
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Korean War Memorial
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Jefferson Memorial
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Second Day


"The Castle" Smithsonian building for the first 3
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Original Kermit the frog puppet.
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Second Day Continued


Inside the Air and Space museum. They had three of these rocket engines setup over a mirror to mimic the 5 rockets that were used for the Apollo missions.
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Next three are of the Native American Museum.
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Capital dome.
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National Archives building.
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Capital
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Getting ready to get on the Metro after a long day. Happy hour, here we come. Not the best pic, but best I could do without a tripod and a 1/4sec shutter (I shake as it is lol ).
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Third Day

I had to resize these with the cheap program I have at work instead of PS, so the quality might be a little off.

George washington masonic Memorial (was next to our hotel)
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White House of course.
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Cool Building
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Post Office
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National Archives
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Some plaques at the US Navy Memorial
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The Booth that Booth Shot Lincoln in at Ford Theater.
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The Library of Congress. This building is insane on the inside with the detail that went into it. Wife shot most of these. She loved this place.
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Fountain in front of the Library. One thing about Washington is there is Nudity everywhere. :D
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Third Day Continued


Part of the ceiling at the front entrance to the library
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Library
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Columns of course (library)
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Cool Statue on the wall (library)
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Another. (library)
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The main research area that you are not allowed to take pictures of any kind. I was very sneaky.
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Same area as pic above looking down. No flash, no Tripod, little light and having to be quick had me surprised this picture came out as well as it did.
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Walking past the Capital on these last shots. We were too late for a tour this day. This building is so amazingly huge.
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Fourth Day

Botanical Gardens
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Inside the capital looking up at the dome
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Walking out of the Capital Building
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Immigration Bill Protest started
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Fourth Day Continued

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Gallery of Art
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Outside the gallery of art
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Fountain inside the gallery of art
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National Archives building
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Crappy picture of the home of the Bill of rights, Constitution, and Declaration of independence (bad lighting, high ISO, Shaky hands, etc)
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Hope Diamond
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Building on the way to the metro
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Last day I spent a lot of time at the Smithsonian Hanger. Took around 450 pics, but most sucked due to lighting and shaky hands.


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Piece of the World Trade Center
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Last day Continued

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First Guided Missile
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1960's satellite control computer.
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Last one.

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This 10 img per post limit made it a tad harder then simply cutting and pasting from my forum. lol

[S.C.]

Love your pics!

[Bynx]

Hi Firehawk. I shed a bit of lite on two of your interesting pictures. It took a total of 5 clicks in Photoshop for both pictures.

[FirehawkNS]

Cool thinks! I tried to do that in CS2, but they kept coming out too grainy for some reason.

[Bynx]

Just use Adjustments -- Auto contrast, then Highlight/Shadow. Im sure with your file size the quality should be pretty good. The two pics of the room you shot that you werent supposed to Im going to try to put them together for a tall panorama from top of ceiling to the floor below. If it works out I will post my results here.

[Bynx]

I wish you had enough to fill the gaps on either side at the top. I guess you could call this a 2 pic panorama.

[FirehawkNS]

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I might have another pic or two of that room, I will check. I need to play around with doing that.