Washington D.C. #1

Since there are so many photos from my trip to Washington D.C. I will have a couple posts, each with different pictures. I'll start at the beginning of the week and slowly move to the end of the week. For the first day we went to a few places but the three places that were my favorite and I have a lot of pictures from are, The Library of Congress, The Supreme Court, and Arlington Cemetery. All three places are extremely old and have so much history to go along with them it would take me forever to tell you, so I'll just stick with a couple of facts.

So, every single building that you go in has security guards and metal detectors. It is extremely irritating to have to go through one even if you want to just go to the bathroom. I guess they just don't want anybody to blow stuff up. Anyways, if you take any shots near the security checkpoints or of something that they don't want you to take pictures of, they will make you delete all of the shots you took.

A lot of the shots that I took are architectural, because the work was just amazing.

This is the Library of Congress. I wasn't able to get inside the actual library, I even tried just walking in and they talked to me and told me to leave and that I wasn't allowed to be in there. So of course they followed me out of the building and made sure that I left. All of these shots are outside of the library. It was an amazing place, all of the artwork and decorations were absolutely incredible.They kinda look like one of the sample images from the Canon tilt-shift lenses. Somewhat of the same style, i guess.

The Library of Congress had so much detail in every square inch of the whole place. You can really see it in both of these shots.

Here are some of the Supreme Court building. It isn't decorated as extravagantly but has some amazing features. I was laying on the floor for some of these, but then they kicked me out. I got escorted out by security guards. I got some great shots though!

The beautiful ceiling of the Supreme Court entry way. Everything is made out of marble.

This is a spiraling staircase that is in the Supreme Court building. The stairs are actually carved out from the wall, not just stuck onto the wall.

Arlington Cemetery was by far one of my favorite places that we went to. It was just absolutely beautiful and peaceful. The graves of soldiers and many other people just went on forever out into the distance. They never stopped going, it was truly amazing. We went in early evening when the Sun was setting and I got some good shots with the graves, but one of the coolest parts of the Cemetery was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

These are from the Tomb of the unknown soldier. These are the guards who guard the tomb 24/7. The change the guards out every half hour.

A couple shots of the thousands of graves that are in the whole cemetery. The graves seriously went on so far in the distance you couldn't see the end of them.

Well that's the first day of my trip. We had a lot of the activities planned for the first day, so the rest of the week slowed down a little bit. I'll have the next post on my trip up soon. Any comments or suggestions would be great!

Thank you to everybody who looks at these posts! And also if you want to see anymore from these sections of my trip, please let me know.

-Kellan