WWII Memorial: Honoring our Heroes 2014

The WWII Memorial 2004!

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STEPHEN R. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY: D-DAY WWII Memorial &emdash; Stephen R. Brown Photo

It’s been a decade since the opening of the WWII Memorial and this time I actually got to go to the ceremony!  During the original opening ceremonies I was making sure I secured this image for the book and so spent my day at the airport waiting for my friend Jeff Tinsley of Smithsonian who  took this picture.  The National Park Service helicopter routinely took Jeff up as images done for the government are “public domain” and so I would have access to the images as long as they didn’t get “lost.”

STEPHEN R. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY: JEWEL OF THE MALL BOOK PRINTS &emdash; WWII Memorial

During that week,  Boeing printed and distributed 1.6 million posters of one of my night images and the Washington Post ran 39 pages on the WWII Memorial.  A productive time but no one I believe thought that the WWII Memorial would become the most popular attraction on the Washington Mall drawing 4.5-5 million people a year.  Too bad they don’t have a bookstore, eh?

TENTH ANNIVERSARY

STEPHEN R. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY: WWII MEMORIAL:  May 24, 2014, Tenth Anniversary &emdash; Stephen R. Brown Photo

STEPHEN R. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY: WWII MEMORIAL:  May 24, 2014, Tenth Anniversary &emdash; Stephen R. Brown Photo

STEPHEN R. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY: WWII MEMORIAL:  May 24, 2014, Tenth Anniversary &emdash;

 

 

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