Recently, I was in Washington, D.C. for a long weekend visit with my youngest son. The trip had been planned to coincide with the peak season of the annual “Cherry Blossom Festival.” It had been two years since I had experienced the delight of seeing the blossoms for the first time and at that time I was a relatively new photographer using a small Cannon “point and click” digital camera. I couldn’t wait to use my now more sophisticated digital camera and to compare the presumably better pictures with the first attempt.
Well, nature intervened. The blossoms were at peak season about 3 weeks before I arrived (peak season changes every year and I’d purchased my ticket) due to the very early spring in D.C. I changed my focus and decided to only take my I-Phone® and join the category of “iphoneographers” during my visit. It takes a light touch and there were a a lot of new “how -to’s” , but what a delight to bring home about 75 images that were stored in a phone in a pocket of my jacket. Amazing.
Today’s image comes from the front of an office building on “L” street in downtown Washington, D.C. With the lens in the I -Phone®, a different angle, and the sunny morning light reflections, the windows all look a bit different, and yet they were all identical. The upper left window is the closest to what “the eye” saw. Plan B (and C) often delight, if we can only move on from Plan A.
IBK