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Sunrise on the Tidal Basin

4 April, 200820 January, 2010 Becca3 Comments

This starts with a sad story, but a happy ending. I first went to take pictures of the sunrise in D.C. at the Tidal Basin on Wednesday, but once I had biked to the Tidal Basin and set up my tripod and camera I quickly realized that I didn’t have my SD card in my camera. Basically I was screwed. The sun was coming up, I didn’t have a camera with memory to take a single picture, and my card was back in my car at the metro station. I could have gone to Ritz and bought a card, but it wasn’t open and by the time I would have gotten one the sun would have been up. So I got back on my bike and went home.

But I was determined to get my sunrise photos, so I went again for the sunrise. I got up at 4am two days in a row and traveled to D.C. But I got some great photos of the sunrise, the Jefferson Memorial, the Tidal Basin, the cherry blossoms, and the Washington Monument.

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Making Plans

1 April, 200820 January, 2010 BeccaLeave a comment

So I’m planning on going down to D.C. tomorrow morning to photograph the sunrise with the cherry blossoms. I think everything is going to work out. I’m planning to take one of my bikes so I can get around a little more quickly than walking, and I’m hoping to be able to hit up a few of the monument around that time frame. So here’s the game plan…

I’m planning on getting up at 4am (a.k.a. the butt crack of dawn), and starting my journey about 4:30-4:45am. I’ll leave my home and head for the metro. From there I’m either going to travel to my favorite stop (Branch Ave.) or heading down to the Smithsonian stop. Either way I’ll be good on time (if I have my bike that is). I just want to be able to be set up before the light starts to beautify the sky.

I hope to start heading home between 8-9am for another photo shoot I’m trying to set up. I don’t know if this one is going to work out, but I’m hoping it will.