this memorial at night is even more impressive tehn by day. here are a couple of shots I took
that is the last of the dc pictures taht I will be sharing for now. oh I might pop one in later in the blog at some point but for the most part you have seen it. hope you enjoyed it. a few more shots from my trip will be some battlefields and amish country.
i love how this one shows the soldier looking into the reflective wall. the wall has many facets of the war, the people and the machines that happened during that time computer etched into it. below is only a small section of the wall.
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nearing the end of my memorial tours this is the Jefferson monument. I think it is one of the monuments that doesn't get visited much anymore but then maybe I am wrong.
Most of the women that served in the vietnam war were nurses so this is their memorial. I found it very moving (yeah I say that a lot don't I?) the faces and expressions are very cool.
teh designer of this memorial was Maya Lin. Lin's conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers. Interesting enough this design was given a B grade in school by her professor at an earlier class she had taken.
the wall is only part of the vietnam memorial. Did you know there are 2 more memorials? tomorrow and the next day I will show those.
Many of you will recall a famous painting by Lee teter where a man is leaning against the wall with the reflections of the soldiers coming back. I would have loved to somewhat simulate that but impossible to do with the amount of people that visit DC during the day and night so this is my best shot.
I was rather impressed at the size of this monument but less impressed with how crowded it was. Not sure why I was expecting less people to be there duh cherry blossom season and all.
I would have rather had no people in this shot but it does give a perspective of how big Lincoln is.
and this shot shows you how huge the entire monument is
just 2 things to say
1) this is a must see - not only for the memorial but the view from here
2) this is not my favoirte shot just the best that I took sadly. lots of people, yucky blah weather and well I just lacked the imigination to get a good shot I think. Need to work on that.
One most see things to do at at Arlington is the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. I didn't have the best seat in the house for picture taking so sorry about that but you get the idea. everything about the ceremony is very military very exaggerated and very serious Being a former military member myself I can appreciate this but for anyone that isn't part of that I think it is important to know that this is one of the highest honors someone can receive and least we not for forget all our unknown soldiers in this world. they were someones child, someones loved one and all of our fighters for freedom in this world regardless of what your beliefs and their own beliefs on war and conflicts a soldier of all armed forces fight to keep us free.
I just really liked how the light was shinning on this statue of George Washington so sharing it. this statue is in the Smithsonian Amercian History museum for more information on it you can check this website: http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=66
by the way if you ever go to Washington dc plan on lots of time we had only a day for museums and cruised through 2 but there are sooooo many more and so much we missed as well.
a painting on the side of a building in Frederick, MD this is one of three located throughout town. this one is called "the edge of gravity" by william m cochran i like the way he seems to be looking up at the empty window above as if calling out to someone
this is the second painting. I did not see the third
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this was taken in the arlington cemetery. I thought it needed a little more so added some texture and words The speach that ronald reagan gave is a powerful one you can see the speech here on youtube:
what would he say now America???
ok since I schedule out my posts sometimes weeks in advance and I just read that texture tuesday is suppose to use the the yesteryear texture you get a bonus post today;
I was in Frederick, MD. hahaa I am a sucker for murals painted on buildings I don't know why but I am drawn to them. I love how they make the building unique and stand out. I spent the day in this lovely town being shown all the great buildings. As you see in this picture it is famous for its church spires.
there is a blog where the photographer took a picture a day for a year called a year on market street.
Check this website out it is really cool some great macro shots and they have a caption this feature that I ended up with a shot on. onenezz: one with nature and environment
back to the train station this is where we picked up the train to go into DC. Isn't this a beautiful station? You can't go inside of this one but form the outside the architecture is gorgeous.
this shot was taken as we ended the day and waited for our hosts to meet up with us. One was stuck on another train coming out of DC. the train was late due to a sick passenger which halts the entire train till they are removed.
I was in DC at the very end of the cherry blossom festival and these little signs were all over the place. tooo cute. Unfortunately the blossoms were not very good while I was there. lots of wind and rain had thrashed them pretty good.
