{"id":631,"date":"2018-10-15T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/?p=631"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:27:09","slug":"washington-dc-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/2018\/10\/15\/washington-dc-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our way to Florida for the winter, we stopped in Washington, DC for a long weekend, to attend the festivities surrounding the wedding of the son of one of my cousins. On Thursday, October 4th, our only evening without any scheduled activities, we took a night tour of Washington, DC. Over the course of 2 1\/2 hours, we stopped at the Jefferson Memorial, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Memorial, Pentagon 9\/11 Memorial, and Marine Corps Memorial. Susie and I highly recommend that anyone visiting Washington take a night tour.<\/p>\n

I have not done much low light photography and this tour was quite a challenge for me. My camera does not have a flash… it would be useless for most of the pictures I took; I left my monopod and tripod in the car, which was in the hotel garage, so I had to take all the pictures free-hand. Fortunately, I took enough pictures changing camera settings until I got a usable shot. Below is a selection of what I felt were the best shots of the night.<\/p>\n

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Jefferson Memorial viewed from the edge of the Tidal Basin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cousins at the Jefferson Memorial. From left to right, my Chilean cousins Polo, Patricia (aka Jenny) and Sam with Susie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FDR in a Wheelchair.\u00a0The sculpture is based on a rare photograph of Roosevelt in a wheelchair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This sculpture of a depression era breadline is based on a famous photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Martin Luther King Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lincoln Memorial Viewed from the edge of the Reflecting Pool.\u00a0After walking about five miles this afternoon, I was in no mood to tackle the steps into the Memorial. That is why I stayed below to take this shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Washington Monument and Capitol viewed from the Lincoln Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pentagon 9\/11 Monument.\u00a0This monument consists of 184 benches, one for each victim. The benches have reflecting pools under them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marine Corps Monument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note: I didn’t realize that I the copyright date on the pictures was wrong. I thought I had updated it. All these pictures were taken on October 4, 2018, and the copyright is for that date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our way to Florida for the winter, we stopped in Washington, DC for a long weekend, to attend the festivities surrounding the wedding of the son of one of my cousins. On Thursday, October 4th, our only evening without any scheduled activities, we took a night tour of Washington, DC. Over the course of … Continue reading Washington DC at Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,48],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dc","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredtotheworld.net\/Travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}