This April the family traveled to Washington, D.C. for Spring Break. We enjoyed absolutely gorgeous Spring weather while we explored the city and its many museums and monuments. According to the Fitbit, we covered approximately 20 miles in our three and a half day visit that included the National Mall, the National Archives, the Smithsonian's Natural History and Air & Space Museum, the National Zoo, the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, the International Spy Museum, and many other sites and sounds along the way.

For the trip, I brought along the Fuji X100s and a couple of 32GB flash cards amassing just shy of 1000 images throughout the week. All the photographs were shot handheld and often times in very challenging lighting conditions. I primarily shot at F2.8 and F4.0 indoors, while stopping down to F8.0 and F11.0 on occasion when outdoors. 

Above, the Starbucks sign in the Grand Hyatt hotel and my son posing in front of the future Trump Hotel ... backstory ... all trip my son took pleasure in trying to work my wife and I up with the thought of Trump becoming president, so I was able to get him to pose in front of the sign for a pictorial reminder of his youthful ignorance one day in the future.

Below is the lobby of the Grand Hyatt hotel.

The International Spy museum was well worth the visit.

Reflections downtown.

Interesting colors captured walking back to our hotel early evening.

A close-up detail shot from our walks downtown.

A Bentley and a Rolls Royce (behind).

Thanks for stopping by today!