Immersed in Powerful Words

Took this on a late, cold Friday evening in February. The Washington DC National Mall was mostly empty but there was one small group passing through the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial when I was set up. The person in the photo stayed just a bit longer than the others to take in Dr. King's words.

The inscription is very readable at the image's full size, but for those viewing this on a small device, I'll repeat them below. They still seem to resonate today, over 53 years later.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Alabama, 1963

To me, this photo is very meaningful given the singular interaction of someone at the memorial reading Dr. King's words. As soon as I saw it come off the the camera's LCD, I went "Wow".

This was taken from across the Tidal Basin, at over 1,100 ft away. I really like this perspective of the memorial because it lets you see it at eye level and compare the proportions to one person admiring it. The compression of the long lens also pulls the inscription in tight.

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON D750
Exposure:	4
Aperture:	f/11.0
ISO Speed:	400
Focal Length:	460 mm
Lens:	200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6