I have now entered the miraculous world of digital photography. I wasn’t expecting to do so until my parents revealed their gift to me for my 21st birthday: a Kodak EasyShare C643 (whoever comes up with these names needs to go back to marketing school). What’s odd is, I didn’t even give my parents ideas for a birthday gift this year, and yet they somehow came up with the one that was on my mind; I simply couldn’t afford to buy my own camera, so I was holding off on it. I guess my parents do know a thing or two about me after all. :-P
You can find my pictures from break here. In case you hadn’t heard, I went to DC for a couple of days (Sunday and Monday) during break because my dad was giving a talk in DC on Monday. If any of you have some photography tips for me, I’d love to hear them.
A few notes about the trip:
1) I also went to the Washington National Cathedral, but my pictures in there were far too dark to be worthwhile. Some decent images can be found here. Also, how could I not love a place that has this? Too bad I couldn’t see it.
2) I wasn’t able to meet up with either my friend in DC or my friend from Lehigh who said she might be in DC on Monday, but I did run into ANOTHER friend from Lehigh while walking around the zoo. Combined with seeing the Lehigh van on Sunday, it appears that I can’t escape Lehigh, no matter where I go.
3) As you can probably tell from the pictures, I really liked the FDR Memorial. However, another one that you should check out in DC if you have the time is the Korean War Memorial (pictures here). I hadn’t seen that before, and it ended up being a good decision to swing by there.
4) On Monday, my mom and I had several encounters with the homeless, including one where my mom got a biscotti thrown at her (it was her biscotti, and she was trying to help the guy out by giving it to him; apparently, he didn’t want it). Is it just me, or is homelessness on the rise in this country? My family and I have had a few run-ins with panhandlers in
I said last time that I would talk about being 21, but I’m out of time now, so I’ll save that for another week.
1 comment:
Before you go on some "the US has bad economy" rant, you crazy liberal you (OF COURSE you'd like the FDR memorial), let me just remind you that D.C. has a lot of homeless and bums. Always had, always will. The upsurgence of pan handlers in Salisbury is simple consequence of Salisbury growing as a town.
That, and there's our awareness. They're more likely to talk to older individuals (like we've become), than children. Also, I've seen a larger number of them at late night, a time I wouldn't have hung out a few years back.
And Nate was just one ill-timed coincidence.
Let's move to Snow Hill - it'll be safer there.
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