January 31, 2011
Self – Portrait: Haunting
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

“Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 30 Picture a Day

January 30, 2011
Self – Portrait: Movement
Edgewood mural along the Metropolitan Branch Trail

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 29 Picture a Day

January 29, 2011
Self – Portrait: Indecision
Baltimore, MD - Downtown

“Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 28 Picture a Day

January 28, 2011
Self – Portrait: Apparition (?)
Frozen Tidal Basin, Jefferson Memorial

“Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 27 Picture a Day

January 27, 2011
Self – Portrait: Fallen
Thankful that’s not my car under that tree!
Arlington, VA – aftermath

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 26 Picture a Day

January 26, 2011
Self – Portrait: Snowed in
Mini blizzard? Arlington, VA

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 25 Picture a Day

January 25, 2011
Self – Portrait: Rocket trike
http://www.rideforrenewables.com/
National Mall

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Edison
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 24 Picture a Day

January 24, 2011
Self – Portrait: It wasn’t me!
U.S. Park Police – National Mall
March for Life 2011

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 23 Picture a Day

January 23, 2011
Self – Portrait: I wonder if he’s as cold as me?
“I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.”

National Museum of the American Indian
“History is herstory too”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 22 Picture a Day

January 22, 2011
Self – Portrait: Back again
East Potomac Park – Air Force Memorial in the distance

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 21 Picture a Day

January 21, 2011
Self – Portrait: Shutter-Priority
Kennedy Center Grounds

“Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 20 Picture a Day

January 20, 2011
Self – Portrait: On my mind
View of The Kennedy Center from Georgetown Waterfront

“Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 19 Picture a Day

January 19, 2011
Self – Portrait at the Tidal Basin
Monument(al) – Washington Channel

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 18 Picture a Day

January 18, 2011
Self – Portrait: Discombobulated
Ohio Drive - Rosslyn skyline

“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 17 Picture a Day

January 17, 2011
Self – Portrait in Respect. Honor. Remember
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 16 Picture a Day

January 16, 2011
Self – Portrait with a fellow photographer
Eastern Market – Capitol Hill

“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 15 Picture a Day

January 15, 2011
Self – Portrait with the NBC4 Peacock
(I think the Peacock is wondering if that’s a bird or cow on my head?)
NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo
Washington Convention Center

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 14 Picture a Day

January 14, 2011
Self – Portrait: Creepy guy
Baltimore Harbor – World Trade Center & Constellation

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 13 Picture a Day

January 13, 2011
Self – Portrait: Repetitive
(And apparently my theme for my Picture of the Day… for now.)
West Potomac Park – Potomac River

“The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 12 Picture a Day

January 12, 2011
Self – Portrait: Moo
Tidal Basin – Jefferson Memorial

“You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 11 Picture a Day

January 11, 2011
Self – Portrait in the Hall of States
The Kennedy Center – VSA Visual Arts Exhibition
The Arts of Life of Chicago installation

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. ~John F. Kennedy
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 10 Picture a Day

January 10, 2011
Self – Portrait: In Memory@Washington Monument
U.S. Flags to Half Mast for Arizona shooting victims

“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/

January 9 Picture a Day

January 9, 2011
Self – Portrait: Mirror, mirror…
Eastern Market on Capitol Hill

“…From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made…”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 8 Picture a Day

January 8, 2011
Self – Portrait: End of Ramp
Columbia Island Marina looking @ the sunset over the Pentagon

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 7 Picture a Day

January 7, 2011
Self – Portrait: Sunset in a confluence
James Creek Marina – SW, D.C.

“I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 6 Picture a Day

January 6, 2011
Self – Portrait: Daydreaming
Sunset time: W. Potomac Park

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 5 Picture a Day

January 5, 2011
Self – Portrait: On my mind, Rosslyn skyline
(And somehow you can see my Nikon on it’s mini-tripod taking this self – shot of me)
Ohio Drive – E. & W. Potomac Parks

The mind is like an iceberg; it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~Sigmund Freud
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 4 Picture a Day

January 4, 2011
Self – Portrait: Tree pose
Georgetown Waterfront sunset

“I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 3 Picture a Day

January 3, 2011
Self – Portrait: Sunset beliefs
York Infantry – 14th Regiment
Manassas National Battlefield Park

“What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 2 Picture a Day

January 2, 2011
Self – Portrait: YES! Sunset time.
Gangplank Marina, SW Waterfront, Washington D.C.

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/

January 1 Picture a Day

January 1, 2011
Self – Portrait: Subject to change…
The Harborage at Ashley Marina
I couldn’t decide if I wanted to continue doing my Picture of the Day for 20-11 but here goes…

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
*******************
http://barpictureaday.blogspot.com/
*******************
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dctwinkie5500/
*******************
http://barphotography.org/