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This week has not been very good for early morning cherry blossom photos in DC. The peak blooming period and a few days beforehand have been consistently cloudy and foggy. The sunrises have been completely obscured and we haven't been able to capture the colors, at least the ones I was going for.
Went up on Wed morning, the exact peak of blossoms according to the NPS. Got up there before 6am hoping to capture a colorful morning illuminating the trees, instead we got a foggy, dreary start to the day w/o any color whatsoever. Well, almost no color. Right at the first light of the day the sky finally took on just a tiny hint of blue. That was accentuated by the glow of the city in the fog. The one interesting thing was that I'd never seen the Washington Monument disappear into the fog like it did that morning (I think you can only see a little more than half of it here). A slight breeze blurred the blossoms because I had to take a long exposure to capture what available light there was.
Tried to make the best of what Mother Nature presented. It wasn't what I arrived at 0-dark-thirty for, but I'll take it!
This is the DC Winter that won't quit. Snow (yep snow, albeit light snow) was expected on 7 Apr, but made the trek to see the Cherry Blossoms, it was cold, wet, and windy... but gosh they are beautiful! ~ and the monuments too!
A cloudy afternoon for visiting the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the West side of the Tidal Basin. The cherry trees have buds and a few blossoms. Perhaps it is serendipitous that he has this stern look across the Tidal Basin at the Jefferson Memorial.
The sculpture was dedicated on October 16, 2011 (delayed from Aug. by Hurricane Irene), the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington. The design's theme is a "Stone of Hope" hewn from a "Mountain of Despair."
The sculpture is comprised of 159 blocks of white granite that were transported to the sudio of Masster Lei Yisin in Changsha, China where 80% was completed. The blocks were disassembled, shipped to Baltimore, and reassembled in DC to have the final 20% completed onsite.
A cold rain and minor flooding along the Tidal Basin made this photograph of the Washington Monument, as seen from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, a challenge. The moisture on the blossoms weighed down the branches until some became submerged under the water. This photograph romaticizes an otherwise miserable day.
I took this photo last fall and am just now getting around to posting it. The fall colors were especially brilliant at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, last fall.
Early morning, just before sunrise, at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, during peak bloom for the cherry blossoms. The sun is just starting to rise behind the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and a large Yoshino cherry tree leans out over the Tidal Basin.
Taken from the west side of the Tidal Basin looking east along Maryland Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol. The cherry blossoms were about a week past their peak but there were still enough of them on the trees to give an extra bit of color to a gorgeous afternoon. A handheld panorama stitched with Hugin, and retouched with Gimp.
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Attribution: Eric C. Gutierrez
By the end of March, 2018, cherry blossoms still have not started blooming along Tidal Basin area yet. I saw clam water making perfect reflection of Jefferson Memorial in early morning during high tide period with side walk submerged.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial covered in snow and ice. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C. It commemorates the civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. It was carved by Lei Yixin.