August 31 Picture

August 31
MONUMENTal Darkness

“No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
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August 30 Picture

August 30
Newseum –
www.newseum.org

“If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...
what kind of film would you use?”
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August 29 Picture

August 29
The "Exorcist steps"
“…1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was set in the neighborhood and partially filmed there. In the movie's climactic scene, the protagonist is hurled down the 75-step staircase at the end of 36th Street NW, which connects Prospect Street with M Street below...”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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August 28 Picture

August 28
A SELF-Portrait:
“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself”

Colvin Run Mill, Great Falls VA
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.”
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August 27 Picture

August 27
World War II Memorial
”What I take from my nights, I add to my days.”

“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
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August 26 Picture

August 26
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The Washington Monument appears in the background.
Preparing for Glenn Beck this Saturday.

“Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast;
in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish”
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August 25 Picture

August 25
A Self – Portrait: Mimicry
Art Museum of the Americas
18th St, NW, D.C.

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
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August 24 Picture

August 24
Diamond Teague Park
Anacostia Waterfront

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
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August 23 Picture

August 23
A Self-Portrait: VISION
National Gallery of Art

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits.”
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August 22 Picture

August 22
Underneath the Bogue Inlet Pier
Emerald Isle, NC

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
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“Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.”
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August 21 Picture

August 21
Atlantic Beach, NC

“We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.”
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August 20 Picture

August 20
A Self – Portrait: Puppy Love
Hilton Head, SC

“The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man.”
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August 19 Picture

August 19
Self – Portrait – Why?
Fort Macon State Park
Carteret County, NC

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”
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August 18 Picture

August 18
A Self – Portrait: BeAcH YoGa
**A photographer gets people to pose for him.
A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves**
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Pine Knoll Shores beach, NC
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“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
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August 17 Picture

August 17
A Self – Portrait: JOY
“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.”
Indian Beach, NC

“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”
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August 16 Picture

August 16
A Self – Portrait: Repeat…
Emerald Isle, NC

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
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August 15 Picture

August 15
Welcome!
EI, North Carolina

“Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses,
Work's the curse of the drinking classes.”
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August 14 Picture

August 14
A Self – Portrait -
“If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.”

Fort Reno Park,
Highest Point in the city.
Tenleytown, District of Columbia

”Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.”
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August 13 Picture

August 13
Walking Museum of Transportation
Navy Yard, D.C.

”We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light”
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August 12 Picture

August 12
ANCHOR
Buzzard Point Marina.
Southwest, DC

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought”
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August 11 Picture

August 11
Photo vs. Self:
Defender of Liberty (George Mason Memorial)
East Potomac Park

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

August 10 Picture

August 10
A Self –Portrait: VIEWS
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer”
Tunnel graffiti in East Potomac Park

“I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.”
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August 9 Picture

August 9
A Self –Portrait: Sitting.
View of the Capitol – Townhouse Garden
U.S. Botanical Gardens, D.C.

“One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one’s history.
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August 8 Picture

August 8
A Self –Portrait: Thinking…
Chess player statues – Marshall Park, D.C.

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
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August 7 Picture

August 7
A Self –Portrait: Capitol State of Mind
Virginia State Capitol, Richmond

“Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.”
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August 6 Picture

August 6
A Self –Portrait: ROOTS
Wat Lao Buddhavong Temple
Catlett, VA

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
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August 5 Picture

August 5
A Self –Portrait: WET.
SW Waterfront, Washington D.C.
Right after I snapped this shot, I got drenched from the rain, broke my tripod & lost a lens cap BUT at least, I didn’t get hit by lightening so…

“Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.”
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August 4 Picture

August 4
A Self –Portrait: CAPTURE
West Potomac Park – Tidal Basin

Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster.
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August 3 Picture

August 3
A Self –Portrait: LOOKING
District of Columbia War Memorial – WWI
West Potomac Park, D.C.

“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.”
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August 2 Picture

August 2
General Philip Sheridan Memorial
- in the center of Sheridan Circle

“Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.”
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August 1 Picture

August 1
A Self – Portrait – Washington Channel
Hains Point, East Potomac Park

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
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