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Tag: Photography

  • photos: snowfall in mount pleasant, dc

    [Snow, Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC.]
    IMG_3102, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    holy moses, it’s actually snowing?!?

    it seems like every other year, the D.C. weathermen predict at least one “major” storm that will paralyze the city … although, seeing that three inches of snow is more than enough to bring D.C. to its knees, i guess “major” is a relative term.

    we’re supposedly at 10 inches, which would already puts us in the top five storms of the last twenty years. we got 24 inches of snow my junior year of college, a much smaller storm (maybe a foot?) in high school, and i remember using a yardstick to measure a 20+ incher back when i was seven or eight.

    outside of those, we’ve had way more false alarms than anything of interest … which is a good thing, because in the end D.C. is a southern town, and southerners (a) refuse to walk or use public transit, and (b) only think they know how to drive on snow.

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    snowfall in mount pleasant, dc

  • photos: national zoo

    [National Zoo, Washington, DC]
    ECPA20090919_0087, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    quick trip through the zoo. the last time we went, i got *really* great pictures, and then proceeded to have my camera stolen at the bar afterwards. no where near as good pictures this time, but at least we all came home in one piece.
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    photos: national zoo, washington, dc

  • found: concert at the zoo

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    ECPA20090726_0724, originally uploaded by [ecpark].

  • rooftop fireworks

    [Fireworks, Washington, DC.]
    ECPA20090705_2131, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    it’s a bit of a tradition in D.C. to clamor up to your rooftop (if you have one) to watch the fireworks on the Fourth. the lady sparkler and i had never been, but decided to give it a go this year … thinking that it was probably our last year to do something illegal (before baby sparklet arrives).

    i always assumed that the best show was from the mall, but i think the rest of the fireworks (they come from all around us, including Columbia Heights, Crestwood, Silver Spring and over by the National Cathedral) were even more fun.

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    Rooftop Fireworks, Washington, DC

  • found photo: mount pleasant, dc

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    ECPA20090613_0631, originally uploaded by [ecpark].

  • flexday: biking the c&o canal, part 2 (edward’s ferry)

    [Edward's Ferry, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Maryland.]
    ECPA20090612_0622, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    i did the washington, d.c. part of the c&o canal last year, and liked it enough that i decided to go back for more. the next section, between great falls and edward’s ferry, started off exactly the same … until lock 23 (mile 22) where the trail turns into one long mud pit.

    needless to say, my happy little three hour ride turned into a six hour extravaganza … one from which my thighs (and butt) may never fully recover.

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    Edward’s Ferry, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Maryland

  • photos: the best of europe

    [Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.]
    ECPA20090504_1496, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    not everybody has the patience to sort through 800+ photos from a family vacation, so i have distilled out about 70 of my favorites from scotland, london and paris. there is more commentary on the trip to come (UPDATED: it’s here now) but wanted to get the pictures up quicker than my weary brain can draft real blog posts.
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    Photos: The Best of Europe (Slideshow)

  • Rue de Rivoli

    [Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France.]
    Paris has turned out to be the big surprise for me on the trip — i thought i was going to hate it, and was only doing it to buy off my wife for spending seven days in a car running around a nation she’d already seen.

    And i have to say, i was partially right. Paris is an ugly, ugly city during the day — there seems to be no sanitation in the traditional sense, the people on the sidewalks aren’t terribly nice, and it was painfully obvious that I just wasn’t in Kansas anymore Toto.

    But Paris at night, is just stunning.

    I have a feeling we’ll be back — we didn’t get to see even half the things on our list, but when we do come i think we’re going to do another long weekend and not even going to try adapt to the time change.

    We’ll just get up at noon, and stay awake until 2am, and do Paris the way that God intended — at night.

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    Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France

  • Notre Dame

    [Notre Dame, Paris, France.]
    [Notre Dame, Paris, France.]
    friends of ours came to Paris of their honeymoon. they basically rented an apartment for two weeks, and packed a bunch of books, and just lived a normal Parisian life for two weeks (sans blackberry, i hope).

    i thought they were crazy — turns out they weren’t.

    we ran around like tourists for the first 18 hours we were here, before we started dawdling longer and longer in the cafes around the tourist attractions than in the attractions themselves.

    the cafe at Notre Dame is a great example. it’s a horrible tourist trap, and it was horribly overpriced, but sitting there drinking liquid chocolate for two hours is one of the top memories i’m taking home with me.

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    Notre Dame, Paris, France

  • Avenue de Champs-Elysees

    [Avenue de Champs-Elysees, Paris, France.]
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    Avenue de Champs-Elysees, Paris, France