Posts Tagged: Washington DC

Squirrel II

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossom Spring

Troika

I found it in the Fountain

“What do you mean my horse is having a hard time? Just listen to the sound of the sound of how awesome I am!”

Keep a Light on 

What are you thinking, Elizabeth Warren? 

 
 (Yeah so my talk might be too long and there’s a ton of stuff to do and who am I kidding there probably won’t be another report from DC while I am, ya know, actually in DC. Carry on, carry on!) 

Now I just have to write it …

Funnel the Light

I am the Cicada

 
Not a great photo, but at least it’s an update, eh?

Evening at the Washington Monument

Into the Sky

Uh, have a mobile phone snapshot from earlier today, just so that something is happening on here again … . I kind of fell down on the updateryness, didn’t I? Ooops … . And to be honest, I don’t see it getting better for another week or so. You see, these days I am spending my days from ~8:30am to 4:30pm in the NASA archives (NASA! IKNOWRIGHT?!?!?), and then in the Library of Congress from ~5pm to anytime between 8pm and 9:30pm, depending on how long my mental faculties hold out, and so I don’t get much besides sleeping, eating, working done. It’s all good, but it means that I have accumulated a photo and things-that-are-happening backlog of rather impressive length, and don’t have the time/energy to tackle it, as I am spending it all on work. Which is good, but means the tumbleweeds are rollin’ here… .

Thunderclouds

There exists a fine line between ‘take cool photo’ and ‘get inside quickly enough to not get soaked’. Tonight, I walked it.

The Golden Light of 6am

DC reporting in, #16: DC Days

I was going to skip two weeks, but on looking back at my calendar I have to acknowledge that quite a bit happened in them and so skipping them would not do them justice … things aside from long days in the Kluge Center, filled with images and books and different reading rooms and database building.

Among these are – as far as photographic evidence goes – the WWII flyby (which meant lunch outside for us LoC scholars on a sunny Friday, instead of inside … only without actual food) and a Sunday out in the outside area of the United States Botanical Garden (about a 20 minute walk from my place) which I spent re-reading some Jules Verne (relevant to my research) and also taking some photographs. There were also lectures at the LoC and another baseball game (this time against the NY Yankees, with much better weather), a barbeque (the other Sunday) and a board game day on which I was introduced to “Fortune & Glory” (fun, & roughly a WWII/Indiana Jones version of Arkham Horror – and for which I imitated various European accents), and also a tour of the National Archives where I saw the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, among other documents (no photography allowed – but think “National Treasure” for an idea of the layout of the place). More photos from these days might show up here, but now you know what day-to-day DC days are like (the ones that aren’t merely “go to the LoC early, return late) – in brief, anyway, and we’re almost caught up (so we can fall behind again shortly :-)).

Research-wise, my image collection now stands at 514 – not counting Russian images or images that haven’t been sorted into the main image folder. Which reminds me that I need to write about my image processing process at some point… .

WW 2 flyby crowds