Susan and I took the Acela to Washington DC earlier this year after visiting family in NYC. Having been there many times before we knew how beautiful the National Mall was at night and picked one evening to again self-tour the monuments after dark.
DC always brings back fond memories of past visits. As a boy, with my family when we just walked in and toured the Kennedy White House and later spending time with my father at the Library of Congress. As a young man, scheduling long layovers at Reagan International so that I could take the Metro into the Mall to walk among the museums, the monuments and houses of government. As a chaperone, where we were privileged to introduce our daughter’s middle school class to this living embodiment of American Democracy. And later at a concert on a Fourth of July at the National Cathedral.
Spending time in the National Mall personifies the sacrifices made by generations before to ensure the freedoms and liberties that we all share as Americans. The Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, The Korean War Memorial and the WWII Memorial where young people, old people, of all races, religions and nationalities come together respectfully at these enduring symbols of the cost required to insure freedom, equality and equal rights for all peoples. These pictures were taken within two-hours at the west end of the National Mall.
All images were taken with Fuji X100f with 23mm f2.0 lens in RAW format, processed in Lightroom Classic CC 11.0.1