Since I’ve been ranting about photography lately, let’s make this post three in a row (one, two) on the topic.
The weather people are saying we are on track for the hottest summer on record. Which makes photographing outside (or doing most anything else) a challenge.
But I’ve found a few relatively mild mornings and indoor spaces that provided some opportunities, so here are a few of my favorite images from the first half of this summer.
Starting with the photo at the top which is a piece of graffiti in the Union Market section of DC. This is a neighborhood I had never visited, one that is an older warehouse area now undergoing some serious gentrification. More from my exploration is in this gallery.
Back in April I signed up for a Smithsonian day trip to historic Wilmington, Delaware, which included an afternoon of sailing on the Kalmar Nyckel, a replica of a Swedish colonial-era tall ship. The late June day turned out to be our first near-100 degree day of this heat wave. But it was still interesting, if very sweaty. More from that trip in this gallery.
The many, many museums of DC are wonderful places to get out of the heat and enjoy some history and culture. In the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, they place these drawing boards in various locations and encourage people to indulge their artistic tendencies. I’ve always wondered if they record the work, looking for the next great talent.
At the waterfront in Georgetown, on a relatively mild morning, a group of tourists wait for their boat trip down the Potomac (and back) to begin. But this young lady was mostly curious about what was over the side.
And finally, the DC Metro system is always an interesting space in which to photograph. Except, of course, when a few clueless security people claims “you can’t use that camera in the station”.1 Anyway, this is looking down the long escalator into the Roslyn station. It’s not even the longest in the system.
1. They mean, of course, a “professional” camera, one that uses interchangeable lenses and doesn’t look like a smartphone. It does no good to point out that photographing with any camera is not against Metro policy or the law. As long as I don’t use a tripod or use the images commercially.