103rd Anniversary of Washingtons Cherry Trees

May 20, 2015

Girlfriend and I headed up to Washington D.C. as early as we could and we still got up there at the tidal basin when the crowds were large. The amount of people were staggering and we had tickets to the street festival “Matsuri” and it was to crowded to enjoy so we left with out trying the food. I did stop by at the Leica store though which was pretty nice. I still can’t get anything like that.

Pictures taken with my Fuji XPro-1 on 18-55mm and 35mm lens.

Here is the Jefferson Memorial.

The Washington Monument standing over all of Washington D.C. Tallest structure in the District.

Another angle, the blossoms were great. The weather was perfect and everything was full bloom. Glad it was Saturday and not the middle of a work week when it would give way to a splendid day.

One more the the Monument at the tidal Basin.

Thanks for looking…

Jefferson Memorial in Blossom

May 19, 2015

My girlfriend and I went to Washington D.C. during the peak blooming of the cherry trees that were given to us by the Japanese 100 years ago. The flowers are magnificent and lovely to see. The crowds are just unbelevialbe, no privacy just people everywhere.

Taken with Bessa R4M on Provia 100

Richmond by Night

May 16, 2015

A month or so I had participated with my local club a walk at night to do some long exposure to capture our city. Richmond is a great city and has a lot of opportunities to take picures. This is the first time I really went downtown after dark to take photographs.

I used my Canon 60D with the 17-55mm f2.8 lens

The Main Street Station is a great piece of architecture and sites at the bottom of the city. The station was built in 1901 and still has trains pass through it all the time including Amtrack where you can get a ride. The road up to the left is Interstate 95 that was built pretty close to the station.

People also call it the clock tower but there is the main entrance to the station which is pretty nice inside. You can have your event inside and it is used quite a bit.

Standing on the James Monroe Building we had a great angle of Interstate 95 and Main Street Station. The James Monroe building is the tallest building in the city and built in 1981. Stayed the tallest building in the state till 2007.

We then checked out the state capitol which holds the oldest legislative body in the western hemisphere when Virgina General Assembly was established in 1619, pretty interesting. It was completed in 1788 and is currently 227 years old.

There was no one around except a few guards walking the grounds that night. Was a great night, little overcast.

The fountains were nice to see and looked great when you long exposed them.

Thanks for looking.

Bottom by Film

May 7, 2015

I have made a post earlier before when I did a photography meetup and we walked downtown in the bottom of Richmond. I had also brought my Voigtlander Bessa R2 using Portra 125.

We checked out the farmers market where there was no one really since it was in the winter. Empty spaces were just sitting there with their number painted on the pillars.

The amount of stickers all over the city is amazing. It is like the new graffiti.

But there is still some graffiti art all over…

Thanks for looking!

Handcraft and Showroom

March 4, 2015

Part of the walk I did a few months back on a cold day. We walked through a warehouse district of Richmond. There were a lot of empty buildings and places in disrepair. It was an interesting walk where there was no one walking around except for a small Brew house that opened shop there. Breweries and Beer has become a big thing in Richmond and it is definitely part of the culture now for just about all drinking aged people.

Using my Bessa R2 with Canon ltm lenses on Delta 3200 Film

This Showroom was almost cleared out but had a few chairs inside that were flipped over…

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This handcraft factory was left alone probably for at least ten years…

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