Lake Tahoe

Friends invited me out for a ski weekend in Tahoe.  This is the view of the lake from outside their cabin.

Night as Day

 

Jennie Dean Park in Arlington.  Shooting night as day -- making images at night so bright they look like they were shot in daylight.  These two pictures were taking under thick clouds at around 9 o'clock at night.  They are long exposures, about 10 seconds at f 4.5 with a 200 ISO.

Fog in the Trees

 

Fog floats through the trees in Jennie Dean Park in Arlington.

Ice

Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless

Tabletop snow

Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless

Snow in Arlington

 

Steam billows around the Walter Reed Community Center.

To the Moon!

Command Module hatch from Apollo 11, Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.  Ilford black and white effect using the Vignette app on my Droid X.

Apollo Command Module control panel, Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.  Ilford black & white effect using the Vignette app on my Droid X.

Building Museum

 

I used a panorama feature on my Droid X to capture the height of the Building Museum's interior columns.

Snow in the District

 

Rowhouses in the snow in Columbia Heights.  Shot with a tilt-shift effect on my Droid X. 

New Years Eve 2010

 

New Years Eve, 2010 at Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington, DC.

Winter Soltice Eclipse

This was the first total lunar eclipse on the winter solstice since 1638.

Snowflake Street Lamps

 

The Walter Reed Community Center in Arlington, Virginia.  I bought a pair of trick glasses from 7-11 that creates snowflake images over lights.  Put one of the cellophane lenses over the lens on my Droid X phone and snapped this with the Retro cam app.  The streetlights turned into snowflakes.

Christmas Truck

 

 Snow still clings to the fender of the old Chevy truck outside Hard Times on King Street in Old Town Alexandria.

Snow on Oronoco Bay

Snow and ice around Oronoco Bay on the Potomac in Old Town Alexandria.

Goose

A Canada goose watches me from snow covered rocks on the banks of the Potomac.

Heron Takes Flight

A blue heron takes off after I stumbled onto him at Oronoco Bay in Alexandria.

First Snow

 

A park bench during the first snow of the winter.  Alexandria, Virginia

Tree in Snow

  

Old Town, Alexandria 

Statue in Snow

Carlough Plaza, Alexandria, Virginia

Matchbox

 

Warm light at Matchbox in Chinatown.

Christmas at Arlington Cemetery

 

Wreaths against headstones at Arlington National Cemetery

Wreaths Across America

 

Crowd for the "Wreaths Across America" wreath laying at Arlington National Cemetery.

Christmas in Shirlington

 

Fountain of light, Shirlington.

Christmas in Shirlington

 

Christmas tree in Shirlington.

Hawk

A hawk in my back yard.  He shows up every year in the spring and fall.  This morning, he was sitting on a branch overlooking my patio, eating a small, black bird. The tree is home to a colony of squirrels.  Normally, they will post a single squirrel to bark constant warnings when the hawk is around.  Today, they were running wildly around the tree, jumping from branch to branch right in front of the hawk.  I guess they figure he can't kill them if his mouth is full of someone else.

Moon over Arlington

Waxing crescent, 15% illuminated, 398,375 km over Arlington, Virginia.

Devil in the Details

 

The Velvet Devil waits on a shelf at Devines, Columbia Heights.