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The Washington Monument reflected in the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, DC at dawn
The sculpture in this photograph depicts a school of fish, and is mounted in the reflecting pool of the Botanical Gardens.
Sunrise view of the US Capitol Building, Washington Monument and Reflecting Pool from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC
This wild female duck poses for a shot and ignores my presence while I crawl down to take a close-up shot just a meter apart at the National Mall in Washington, DC a year ago.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, located on 6-acres of the World Trade Center site, is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the 2,983 men, women and children killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993
The National September 11 Memorial, designed by American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects in conjunction with landscape architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners, was formally dedicated on September 11, 2011, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Arad and Walker's design was selected from 5,201 entries in an open, international memorial contest, initiated by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), as per the specifications of architect Daniel Libeskind.
Two reflecting pools, each about an acre in size with 30-foot waterfalls--the largest manmade in waterfalls in North America--cascading down their sides, are set within the footprints of the original Twin Towers. The names of 2,983 victims are in inscribed on 76 bronze plates attached to the parapet walls that form the edges of the memorial pools, arranged based on "meaningful adjacencies"--an algorithm developed by Local Projects which includes proximity at the time of the attacks, company or organization affiliations for those who worked at the World Trade Center or Pentagon, and approximately 1,200 requests from family members.
The Memorial Plaza surrounding the pools provides a contemplative escape, with a grove of more than 400 swamp white oak trees, each selected from nurseries within a 500-mile radius of the three attack sites. A small clearing in the grove, known as the Memorial Glade, designates a space for gatherings and special ceremonies.
The National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, designed by Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta, is scheduled to open on or around September 11, 2012. The museum will feature over 110,000 square feet of exhibition space telling the story of the 9/11 through multimedia displays, archives, narratives and a collection of monumental and authentic artifacts.
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my first Sliders Sunday
Garinish Island was just a rock in Bantry Bay, covered in gorse & heather with a Martello Tower when John Annan Bryce, a Scottish MP, bought it from the War Dept in 1910. With gardener Harold Peto, he planned out a garden project that took 100 men from 1911-1914 to move soil from the mainland by boat, blast out rocks, lay out paths and stone steps, plant trees and shrubs, build a walled garden, a tall clock tower, and an Italianate garden with the reflecting pool and pretend-villa. The Bryce family donated the island to the Irish people in 1953. We now can visit what is considered one of Ireland's greatest horticultural success stories. And even on a rainy day, the whole island-garden seems to gather you into her fragrant arms.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first American president.
The monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches (169.294 m) tall. Taller monumental columns exist, but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.
Construction of the monument began in 1848, was halted from 1854 to 1877, and finally completed in 1884. The hiatus in construction happened because of co-option by the Know Nothing party, a lack of funds, and the intervention of the American Civil War. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where construction was halted. Its original design was by Robert Mills, an architect of the 1840s, but his design was modified significantly when construction resumed. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885. It officially opened October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the world's tallest structure, a title previously held by the Cologne Cathedral. The monument held this designation until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was completed in Paris, France.
The monument stands due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial. The monument was damaged during the Virginia earthquake of August 23, 2011 and Hurricane Irene in the same year; as of 2013 it remains closed to the public while the structure is assessed and repaired. The National Park Service estimates the monument will be closed until 2014. Difficulties in repair include complexities such as the time needed to erect scaffolding and lighting which you see in this photograph.
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The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honour to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in the North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker created the Memorial design selected from a global design competition that included more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations.
The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history.
This was taken right in front of the Linclon memorial where a gathering was set up for the victims and to discuss the political unrest in Burma.
Note: this photo was published in a Jan 19, 2012 blog titled "Benefactor Matches Congress to Repair Washington Monument." It was also published in a Feb 14, 2012 blog titled "Facebook Statuses Reveal Top 10 Cities for Getting Engaged."
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How do you go about photographing something that's already been photographed a gazillion times, like statues or monuments or the Eiffel Tower? Well, I thought one possibility would be to catch some interesting shades of late-afternoon light -- so I showed up at the Lincoln Memorial, in downtown Washington, an hour before sunset. I'm so oblivious that I thought the statue of Lincoln would be facing west, and would thus catch the golden glow of the sun. But it faces east, which makes perfectly good sense when you realize that it's set up so that Lincoln is gazing along the length of the Reflecting Pool, toward the Washington Monument.
And since the sun was already behind the backside of the Lincoln Memorial building, the inner room where Lincoln was sitting was already in deep shadow. Frustrated, I decided to create a few 5-shot HDR composites of the reflecting pool and the Washington Monument. And then I photographed the steps leading up to the Lincoln Memorial, with the happy coincidence of a jet airplane flying overhead to show the contrast between old and new. I also photographed a young teenage girl, who appeared to be pouting on a nearby park bench, as if to say she really didn't want to be there at all ... and that was about as much as I could do.
I came back two days later at the beginning of the day, half an hour before sunrise. It was a good opportunity to get some dawn photos of the reflecting pool and the memorials, and it was also interesting to see the early-morning joggers and tourists. Indeed, I had two interesting little encounters while I was wandering around; I've provided the details in the comments for the relevant photos. I was hoping I might get some good photos of early-morning sunlight streaming into the Lincoln Memorial, but it quickly became evident that it would be another hour or two before the sun was high enough; and since the sky looked a little hazy near the horizon, I wasn't sure there would be any strong rays of sunlight anyway.
So I decided that I'd had enough -- and by 6:30 AM, I was all done, and it was time to return to my hotel for breakfast before heading off to my "day job." I'm still hoping to get some good sunlight shots of the various buildings, but that will have to wait for some other day...
This nondenominational chapel was founded by Dominique and John de Menil. The original architect was Philip Johnson. The exterior sculpture is "Broken Obelisk" by Barnett Newman.
This is the main group of a thirteen-figure statuary installation at the courtyard of Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan's headquarters. The sculptor of this 1977 work is John Nick Pappas. The bronze figures are set in a reflecting pool, and range over a sixty-foot space.
Agra, India (est. 1504, pop. 1.7 MM) • Uttar Pradesh
"the tear-drop on the cheek of time" —Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate
• the Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum
• name iis Arabic for "Crown of Palaces"
• construction spanned 22 years
• attracts 7-8 million visitors a year
• commissioned by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666)
• built to house tomb of favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631)
• mausoleums of his other wives are outside the complex's walls
• bldg. also contains Shah Jahan's tomb
• 42 acre complex includes a mosque & guesthouse
• project employed about 20,000 artisans
• led by the emperor's court architect Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
• Origins & Architecture of the Taj Mahal Architects & Craftsmen
• The Architecture of Love —Muslim Heritage
• surahs from the Quran in Arabic selected & inlaid by Persian calligrapher Abdul Haq, aka Amanat Khan (d. 1644-45), using a cursive script called Thuluth
• designated Unesco World Heritage Site for being "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage," reference # 252, 1983
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50th Anniversary of 1963 March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom
August 2013 REALIZE THE DREAM March on Washington
Classic R&B / Soul Music Series
August 2013
EXB Mix 2013.26
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Redeem The Dream March on Washington . The Rally . 37th Anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington . Reflecting Pool . Lincoln Memorial . NW WDC . Saturday, 26 August 2000
Focus: Racial Profiling and Police Brutality
Original photo at www.flickr.com/photos/perspective/19368838/
To fly as fast as thought to anywhere that is now - you begin by knowing that you have already arrived. - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Algae blooms in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on September 13, 2012.
The pool, which underwent a $34 million renovation in 2011 and 2012 to repair leaks and to install a freshwater system that would prevent algae from forming in the pool. It failed. The National Park Service now believes it will need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year pumping ozone into the pool to prevent algae formation.