April 30, 2011

April 30, 2011
Self – Portrait: Yes!!
Mural on Sherman & Barry Place, NW, Washington D.C.

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
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April 29, 2011

April 29, 2011
Self – Portrait: TGIF!
National Harbor, Maryland (Potomac River)

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
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April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011
Self – Portrait: Totalitarianism
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Gardens – Puellae (Girls)

“The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
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April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011
Self – Portrait: Yellow
Bronze lion guarding the Netherlands Carillon

“We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
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April 26, 2011

April 26, 2011
Self – Portrait: Emotions
Tulip Library at the Netherlands Carillon on the Virginia shore of the Potomac River b/w the northern end of Arlington National Cemetery.

“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”
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April 25, 2011

April 25, 2011
Self – Portrait: Pier pressure
Washington Navy Yard – SW, D.C.

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
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April 24, 2011

April 24, 2011
Self – Portrait: Succeeded!
National Harbor, Maryland

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
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April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011
Self – Portrait: A cause
National Race to Stop the Silence – Stop Child Sexual Abuse 5k

“Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.”
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April 22, 2011

April 22, 2011
Self – Portrait: Unexpected
Sticky Rice (not me, the place I was in) - Baltimore

“We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.”
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April 21, 2011

April 21, 2011
Self – Portrait: Being yourself (myself)
Tulip Library – National Park Service

“There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.”
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April 20, 2011

April 20, 2011
Self – Portrait: 4/20 Hmm …
Upper Senate Park – N. of U.S. Capitol

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”
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April 19, 2011

April 19, 2011
Self – Portrait: Granite Moon
Moongate Garden - Smithsonian

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
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April 18, 2011

April 18, 2011
Self – Portrait: White Crazy looking STIKMAN!
Front of Philadelphia Museum of Art – Pennsylvania

“If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.”
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April 17, 2011

April 17, 2011
Self – Portrait: Antique
Transportation Walk: Washington Navy Yard

“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.”
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April 16, 2011

April 16, 2011
Self – Portrait: Shutter priority (30 seconds)
James Turrell: Milk Run (Hirshhorn Museum)
Met these great tourists from Nashville & Berlin in the exhibit, who posed w/ me for this shot.

“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
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April 15, 2011

April 15, 2011
Self – Portrait: Flower power is back!
Tulip Library (Washington D.C.)

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
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April 14, 2011

April 14, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reservoir Dog
Tidal Basin (District of Columbia)

“One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure.”
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April 13, 2011

April 13, 2011
Self – portrait: Color Forms (30 second shutter)
James Turrell’s Milk Run at the Hirshhorn Museum
(one of my favorite exhibits)

“I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.”
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April 12, 2011

April 12, 2011
Self – portrait: Size
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
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April 11, 2011

April 11, 2011
Self – portrait: Face – off
Hotel Helix – Dupont Circle

“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.” (S.F.)
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April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011
Self – portrait: Monumental Kite Day
D.C. National Cherry Blossom Festival – Last Day
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
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April 9, 2011

April 9, 2011
Self – portrait: An overcast Day 15
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves”
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April 8, 2011

April 8, 2011
Self – portrait: A rainy Day 14
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
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April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011
Self – portrait: Cork Tree - Day 13
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.”
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April 6, 2011

April 6, 2011
Self – portrait: Gift of Friendship - Day 12
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

”But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
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April 5, 2011

April 5, 2011
Self – portrait: My Umbrella. Day 11
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.”
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April 4, 2011

April 4, 2011
Self – portrait: Paddleboats!! Day 10
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.”
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April 3, 2011

April 3, 2011
Self – portrait: Room with a view
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.”
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April 2, 2011

April 2, 2011
Self – portrait: Girl interrupted – “SURPISE!” - Day 8
(I guess this guy didn’t realize I was taking some self – timer photos LOL)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
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April 1, 2011

April 1, 2011
Self – portrait: Day 7 (Monumental)
Tidal Basin: National Cherry Blossom Festival
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
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