Cold winter dawn at Chicago's Adler Planetarium in late December that, fortunately, was not windy. My reward was a great view of a great city skyline!

Explored: March 20, 2018

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Sunday night's December Cold Moon (also 2017's only Super Moon) over the Old Post Office in Washington, DC

Explored: December 5, 2017

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Early morning view of Hawaii's Pololu Valley during from the lookout trail. It truly is one of the Big Island's most inspiring and scenic views. This is a single 112 second exposure taken 45 minutes after sunrise.

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So cool to finally walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan and be able to take this shot. So many iconic locations in New York City to see and experience.

Explored: May 23, 2017

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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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