Currently the local media is fixated on the upcoming Kentucky Derby, the national news is alternating between the dotard trial and university protests, and my diet of foreign media is pretty much war, war, war, Buy this!, war, or war. None of which is particularly new or surprising, but for the love of the almighty advertising dollar they can't stop talking about it.
Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. It'll all be there in the morning, so I ain't wasting no more words on it. Decided to edit some photos that didn't have anything to do with anything and somehow wound up in the capital of the chaos monkeys, Washington DC.
Lots of things have been said about this town, and some of them are even true, but don't let that fool you, it's actually a pretty interesting place. Especially for a swamp.
They drained the swamp long ago to make it safe for tour groups and parasites politicians. The locals tend to get forgot, the old 'taxation without representation' lives on here.
There's more museums than you could shake a stick at. Wouldn't go shaking a stick too much around here though. After 9/11 this place was a pocket police state, with security and surveillance nonsense to make Big Brother jealous. Doubt that's changed any but it has gotten more inobtrusive in the years since.
Would love to live here for six months or a year and explore it properly but it's expensive as hell. Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster, could you make that happen?
DC was (is?) a planned city, everything is laid out just so. Does make it easy to navigate and get some nice long street shots. This is one of the streets crossing the National Mall, they're usually lined with an array of food trucks.
It's probably the most walkable city I've been to, with the Metro (subway) you can get most places on foot without too much fuss or effort. Makes for plenty of street photography opportunities.
We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Nonsense
You made me laugh with the title 😂. For those of us who only know DC through the cinema your photographs and what you tell about them is more than a set for tourists. It's great to learn more about one of the places with the most focussed power in the world. I loved the image where the horizon doesn't seem to end. 😍
Ha, I couldn't think of a good title, and then that suggested itself to me :D I have a tendency to forget that's how much of the world experiences DC, first visited when I was a kid and fell in love with the place and can't keep from coming back. Did all the tourist-y stuff when I was young, now I want to see and show the rest of the city. If you can avoid getting run over there's quite a few streets that are good for shots like that. Thank you!
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i loved this one!!
that look like the white house hahaha
really impresive place!
I'm glad :)
That's actually the US Capitol, the building that got stormed on Jan 6, 2021. Sadly, I somehow don't have photos of the White House
Como siempre las fotos muy hermosas y un contenido de calidad..
Gracias!
The pictures looked so beautiful
It will be good if you can hang in there for more time but the expenses…
Thanks.
One of these days...until then I will have to content myself with short trips.
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