Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Rocky Mountain Honor Flight
Rocky Mountain Honor Flight. March 22, 2013. A blustery beautiful Spring morning greeted the Rocky Mountain Honor Flight lead by Mary Haddon. Although we had been down to the Memorial several times in the last week, it was good to see the Memorial populated by its natural inhabitants: WWII veterans and a group of students from the Air Force Academy who had volunteered to act as guardians. And as usual, there were several surprises. As the veterans were just to get off the bus, high school students lined the walkway to applaud the veterans and as we were leaving, a high school band
DC PHOTO BOOK at the Spy Museum!
As of today, the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC will be handling the DC PHOTO BOOK. We are very excited to have the book at their bookstore which houses a wonderful collection of books on espionage and intrigue. DC PHOTO BOOK holds no tales of covert operations yet, but hopefully in time the […]
Honor Flight Summit 2013
The Honor Flight Summit held at BWI airport this weekend was grand! If you were tasked with finding the nicest people in the United States, using Honor Flight as a filter would certainly bring the cream right to the top. 160 plus hub leaders and volunteers gathered to discuss solutions and issues around moving elderly […]
Revised DC PHOTO BOOK
We are happy to report that the first bound copies of the revised DC PHOTO BOOK have arrived! We’ve spent the last eight months redesigning the DC PHOTO BOOK and are quite delighted with the finished product. The updated book features new spreads on the Korean War Veterans Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Holocaust […]
Honor Flight Chicago Roundtrip
The trip with Chicago Honor Flight was amazing. 5000 people were at the airport to greet the veterans upon their return with bagpipes wailing, four marching bands, 1500 sailors, 700 motorcyclists and some two to three thousand family, friends and boy scouts,… . It was electric! Chicago really turns it on so I managed […]
National Reflecting Pool…?
The National Mall’s fabulous reflecting pool is temporarily “out of order”. After an extensive 34 million dollar renovation, the District and it’s guests were only stunned by its beauty temporarily. Within a few days of the opening, “algae and scum” (see photo below) were reported to be taking over. Ever filled with foreboding that a photo will disappear, I was down to the Memorial on opening day and am delighted I did.
Tidewater: Fall Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay
Cool weather brought out hundreds of boats from Herrington Harbour South out on the Chesapeake Bay this weekend and L’Escargot happened to be passing by LaNeve, a restored Cape Dory 31 which my neighbor Jim Evans has been working on. There were tons of fishing boats which looked to be picking up crabs, flounder and rockfish […]
Reflecting Pool: Labor Day
After a number of years, the reflecting pool is “reflecting” and we have our precious views restored to us. This was taken about 7 PM on Labor Day and crowds of people gathered just to admire the perfect view.
Tuskeegee Airman Leads Chicago Tribute
Lawton Wilkerson, one of the Tuskeegee Airman lead the Chicago Honor Flight ceremony today. One hundred WWII veterans visited the WWII Memorial today and were part of a ceremony which included a “lot of photography”. The photographic archives of Chicago’s Honor Flight are perhaps the most complete of all the Honor Flights. The images from […]
REFLECTING POOL ALMOST REFLECTING
It’s been a long time between reflections but after two years of driving piles and pouring concrete, the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln and Washington and adjacent to the WWII Memorial will be opened this September. I am looking forward to seeing a completed Mall as prior to this, the Lincoln had been undergoing renovation.
Spirit of ’45
A “Wall of Honor” consisting of the faces of 1,945 men and women who served during World War II was unveiled at the National World War II Memorial on Saturday morning, August 11, to mark National Spirit of ’45 Day honoring the men and women who were the “ordinary heroes” of WWII. The “Wall” includes […]
Advertising in National Parks Traveler
These three ads will be displayed randomly in a new advertising campaign we are developing with National Parks Traveler. We have committed to 20000 impressions a month and are hoping to watch the site stats soar! It’s more interesting than gambling.
Panning for Gold
Just when you feel you’ve taken every possible angle and image of the WWII Memorial (and I’ve made my share!), you stumble across another view. Yesterday, we were let out of the cab at the front of the Memorial and wandered into this area overlooking the Plaza. The images are available on the studio archive […]
My Father
He instilled a sense of patriotism and service in his children and whenever I look at this picture, I am moved. His name is inscribed behind the inspection plate on one of the eagles and when i am down there, I always think of him. He didn’t live to see the Memorial erected but he was an avid fan of construction and would have loved to watch the Memorial being put together. He was generous, adventuresome and never saw a situation that he didn’t make better. He also loved boats
Happy 4th of July
The fireworks in DC are always spectacular and one year I had the good fortune to photograph them from the top of the Lincoln Memorial. You don’t get a much better seat than that! We are planning on revisiting the roof of the Lincoln Memorial this Fall to photograph the newly renovated reflecting pool.
Korea at Night
The Korean Memorial has been an interesting project as well. Surrounded by the Lincoln and the WWII Memorial, it’s smaller even than the Vietnam Memorial. I’ve found it the most difficult of the Memorials to photograph so far but then, I haven’t tried it just before dawn…usually a solution for any photograph.
Grand View
The great part of my book projects is sprucing up my files. A photo similar to this taken thirty years ago is in the current edition of the DC PHOTO BOOK but wasn’t capable of being taken to a larger size in the new revision of the book because of dust and age so….. I’ve been […]
Pentagon Memorial
I have seen sketches of the new Pentagon Memorial and was not expecting the elegance and sophistication of the design. It is truly a subtle solution for this little trafficked Memorial. We are adding photos to the DC PHOTO BOOK due out in the Fall and this will be a stunning addition. Visit before it’s […]
WWII MEMORIAL: JEWEL OF THE MALL: THE COVER
It’s been ten years since I began the WWII Memorial project and I am delighted
Michigan Honor Flight
Faye Wisely was the first person I ever contacted about Honor Flight. No one was quite sure of how to go about accomplishing the task of moving all those vets. She pointed me to Earl Morse who was still working it out with Jeff Miller over the dinner table.
Honor Flights
Chicago, Arizona, Columbia and Myrtle Beach, SC and North West Ohio Honor Flights were in town today as was Jim McLaughlin, President of Honor Flight and Susan Barr traveling with Arizona. The predicted stormy weather held off all day and other than a bit of humidity, my trip to the Memorial was absolute karma– […]
Rocky Mountain Honor Flight May 18 2012
Mary Haddon of Rocky Mountain Honor Flight was at the WWII Memorial with about thirty veterans and their guardians. The weather was DC at its best and promised to continue for the weekend which is supposed to be jam-packed with flights. The veteran on the left was celebrating his 93rd birthday. You can see more […]
Jane’s Corner
Jane Howitt began working with me a couple of months ago and studio productivity has skyrocketed. She oversaw the revision of the WWII Memorial book through its final stages and is now deep into the revision of the DC PHOTO BOOK. She is also working on a series of posters which we soon hope to […]
Kaskey Studio Site
Sculptor Ray Kaskey who sculpted the the WWII Memorial elements just completed assignments for the “International Brotherhood of Teamsters” and the “International Union of Operating Engineers.” I added twelve pages to the site and updated the “Commissions” page. I designed the site two years ago in Dreamweaver and still think it’s an elegant piece of code.