The Washington Monument at sunset
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.
Upon returning home and reviewing the images, I was quite happy with the results from the Fuji X100s. I intentionally left the Canon 7D Mark II home because I did now want to carry it and its lenses around all week. Overall this was a good choice, but I did miss the EF 100-400 at the National Zoo as the animals were quite active, including the pandas.
I will be breaking the images from the trip up into separate posts. Up first here are the images taken over a couple days from the National Mall and memorials.
I hope you enjoy. Thanks for stopping by!
The Washington Monument from the World War II memorial
World War II memorial: Admiral Nimitz quote
World War II memorial: Quotes
World War II memorial
Lincoln Memorial at night
Lincoln Memorial
The Washington Monument reflection in the reflecting pool from the Lincoln Memorial
Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson Memorial