I've not been able to do any shooting in a few days due to uncooperative weather, and I though yesterday was going to be no exception. To my surprise, the evening sky cleared up and provided us with a beautiful sunset and some rainbows.
These shots were mainly taken on the north end of downtown...
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I caught the sunset but missed the rainbows. Great pics!
I did a double-take on that second shot. It looks very much like the "castle tower" of the old Smithsonian plus the Washington Monument but the spatial relationship isn't quite the same.
Good eye.
Thanks guys, I was completely taken by surprise by the sky yesterday. That second shot is the first time, I believe, that I have ever silhouetted the Scottish Rite Cathedral.
When religious groups try to post the Ten Commandments in a public place it usually results in controversy. Yet one of these pictures shows a place where the Ten Commandments have been posted for many years and few people have noticed it. Do you know where it is?
I'm not really sure, but I will make a guess that it is on one of the monuments within the memorial plaza. Interesting...
Here is the view of the Ten Commandments:
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/77a84369-f3e7-4188-bf28-30dc6e6fd770.jpg
Interesting...I never noticed that before. Do you know when it was installed?
It was done in 1929, the sculptor was Henry Haring, the architect was Walker & Weeks, check out their Wikipedia entries. Haring also did the Pro Patria sculpture at the War Memorial across the street. Hebrew uses the alphabet to signify numbers, the number one (Alef) is at the top of the right tablet.
Behind this is the Federal Building. Long ago someone told me that the architect for this building invented the famous I (heart) NY logo. Thanks to the internet you can confirm stuff like this better, now I know that it was Milton Glaser, and he didn't design the building but he was supposed to have done a 600-foot mural for the building in 1974. Was this on the outside of the building and now gone, or is it on the inside of the building? Check out the Wikipedia entry for Milton Glaser.
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