Pictures Taken By you...

I was in Washington D.C. last week and found a little free time to take some pictures. Now I've been there many times and i was just trying to take a different angle on much photographed icons.
The Capital Building;
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image085.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image084.jpg

The World War II Monument
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image075-1.jpg

A close up of WWII monument with Lincoln Memorial in background.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image066.jpg

The Washington Monument:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image068.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image063-1.jpg

The base of the Wash monumant with the Capital in the background:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image065-2.jpg

The White House
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image062-2.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image060.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image061.jpg

These are very interesting photos, Virgil. :) I especially liked the fourth picture!

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Originally Posted by Pensive

These are very interesting photos, Virgil. :) I especially liked the fourth picture!

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Thanks Pensy. It did come out nice. Here's another that came out nice. It's picture of a statue of a President from over 100 years ago, Ullysses S. Grant. I like the angle and framing I captured.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image083.jpg

Great adjustment! The way it comes in between the trees and the view looks very nice.

This is a special place near my home. Oddly, I had two seasons captured.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/P2070002.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...vermorning.jpg

Beautiful, Captain Pike, beautiful.

lovely pics Uncle Virg
i didn't know the Capitol was so beautiful and so big (in the pics in our English textbooks it looked much smaller). how do they keep it so white and clean? doesn't it get blackened by exhaust fumes?
did you use an old-stlye (non-digital) camera?

Captain Pike, I like the pic of the river at dusk

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Originally Posted by SleepyWitch

lovely pics Uncle Virg
i didn't know the Capitol was so beautiful and so big (in the pics in our English textbooks it looked much smaller). how do they keep it so white and clean? doesn't it get blackened by exhaust fumes?
did you use an old-stlye (non-digital) camera?

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Actually it looks even bigger in person. I don't know how many stories high but it's very wide as well. I don't know how they keep i so white. I have never seen them cleaning it. When I first saw the Washington monument and the White House, I was surprised at how big they were. I believe the Washington Monument was the tallest structure in the world at one time.

Virgil, when my scroll descending slowly, i just saw the top of your picture, and for a second i thought that's a real cowboy on a horse.

Well, here's me and girlfriend/soon fiance/future wife;

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture187.jpg

Nice photo Turk. Hey, you look Italian! I love your hair. I had hair like that a long time ago. Best wishes to you and your fiance. She looks like a nice girl.

man I love this thread....

I'm liking the hair, too, Turk!

and great pictures of DC, Virg. They make me want to go there and visit all the monuments again. It's been awhile since I really took time to look, though I pass through DC fairly often.

Nice DC pictures, Virgil :thumbs_up Turk, you two look nice together. :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I had hair like that a long time ago.

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Yeah, so did I, except for the colour. These days Im glad I have hair :p :D

/Claes

Since I spent a few days in Venice last week, I have some new pictures of Venice and the isles. Sadly, only Murano and Burano since finding the right vaporetto to Torcello proved too difficult and timeconsuming.

Burano:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...ser/burano.jpg

Murano:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...ser/murano.jpg

Venice:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/venice2.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/venice4.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/venice1.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...isser/burg.jpg

Part of the Basilica San Marco (Venice):
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/sanmarco.jpg

The Arsenal (where I spent about an hour looking at the various ... statues. )
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/arsenal.jpg

how gorgeous! thanks for sharing.