November 30 Picture a Day

November 30
Random simplicity
Washington D.C.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~Walt Whitman
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November 29 Picture a Day

November 29
Self – Portrait: Ta-da!
Lincoln Memorial at night

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
~Vincent Van Gogh
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November 28 Picture a Day

November 28
Self – Portrait: Repetitive
National Harbor at sunset

“I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.”
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November 27 Picture a Day

November 27
National Harbor at sunset

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare
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November 26 Picture a Day

November 26
**Black Friday** (Oy-vey)

A Self – Portrait: Do Not Enter!
National Harbor, MD

“I have been my own disciple and my own master.
And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.”
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November 25 Picture a Day

November 25
A Self – Portrait: Monumental
**Thanksgiving 2010**

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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November 24 Picture a Day

November 24
A Self – Portrait: Girl
National Air & Space Museum

“All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.”
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November 23 Picture a Day

November 23
A Self – Portrait: In between
The National Gallery of Art – East & West Buildings

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”
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November 22 Picture a Day

November 22
A Self – Portrait: Lost. Overused
Washington National Cathedral at night

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
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November 21 Picture a Day

November 21
A Self – Portrait: RESILE
Benjamin Banneker Park and Memorial
L’Enfant Plaza

“Daily I learn - sometimes painfully, other times with glee - that mine is a path never meant to be paved.”
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November 20 Picture a Day

November 20
Help the Homeless Walkathon 2010
National Mall – U.S. Capitol

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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November 19 Picture a Day

November 19
A Self – Portrait: Uh…
Big Green Chair – Duke Ellington School of Arts

“Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions”
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November 18 Picture a Day

November 18
A Self – Portrait: Jump!
Trade timeline of the World

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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November 17 Picture a Day

November 17
A Self – Portrait: Oops!
G.W. Masonic National Memorial

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso
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November 16 Picture a Day

November 16
Self – Portraits: Rooftop
Artisphere building

“The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”
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November 15 Picture a Day

November 15
Self – Portraits: Leaves
Manassas National Battlefield Park

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
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November 14 Picture a Day

November 14
Self – Portraits: Weights
Downtown D.C. – 18th Street NW

“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.”
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November 13 Picture a Day

November 13
Self – Portraits: COLLIDER
FOTOWEEK in Rosslyn, VA 2010
Artisphere – Opening of Folding/Unfolding

“Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.”
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November 12 Picture a Day

November 12
Self – Portraits: Faces
FOTOWEEK DC2010
Corcoran Gallery of Art

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ~Pablo Picasso
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November 11 Picture a Day

November 11
Veterans Day 2010
G.W. Masonic National Memorial
Alexandria Police Department

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington
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November 10 Picture a Day

November 10
Self Portrait: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Corcoran Gallery of Art
FOTOWeek DC 2010

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
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November 9 Picture a Day

November 9
Self Portrait: Projections
FOTO Week DC in Rosslyn, VA
CentralSpace to CentralPlace

“Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.”
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November 8 Picture a Day

November 8
Self Portrait: Walking Camera
Corcoran Gallery of Art –
FOTO Week Central
http://www.fotoweekdc.org/

“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
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November 7 Picture a Day

November 7
Self Portrait: 18th – 19th Century Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art –
FOTO Week Central
http://www.fotoweekdc.org/

“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
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November 6 Picture a Day

November 6
Corcoran Gallery of Art –
FOTO Week Central
http://www.fotoweekdc.org/

“The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.”
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November 5 Picture a Day

November 5
Self – Portrait: Look
Arts on N Street

“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.”
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November 4 Picture a Day

November 4
Self – Portrait: Puddle reflection
U.S. Capitol at night

“By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.”
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November 3 Picture a Day

November 3
“Words have meaning and names have power.”

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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November 2 Picture a Day

November 2
White House – Executive Office of the President of the United States

“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
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November 1 Picture a Day

November 1
Self – Portrait: PASSION
Random street graffiti – Frederick, MD

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
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