While surfing around for things to do in Washington, we stumbled upon Washington Photo Safari. Here is an explanation from their website .. “If you love to take pictures and travel, come join one of our photo safaris! A professional photographer takes you around the monuments of Washington DC or other domestic and international travel locations, while giving you tips on composition, lighting, and exposure!”. We discovered that they were having a tour called “Cherry Blossoms at Sunrise” and we signed up for it.
We had to be at the Tidal Basin by 6:15am. When we got up this morning, we looked outside and realized that it was snowing. It seems this bad weather is following us from Pennsylvania. We left the hotel by 5:15am and we were downtown in 15 minutes. This gave us 45 minutes to spare. People started slowly showing up and by 6:30am, we were on our way.
The next 2 hours was spent walking around the Tidal Basin taking pictures of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial with the cherry blossoms in the background. David Luria was our instructor along with two other professional photographers. What was nice about this class was that the professional would take the time to help you with your pictures. They would give suggestions on how to make it a better photo and with using a digital camera, you can see your results instantly. I would highly recommend Washington Photo Safari. We got back to the hotel around 9:30am and enjoyed a hot breakfast and a well deserved nap.
We spent the afternoon shopping at The Container Store and Tysons Corner Center. We used “Jack” to find us Famous Dave’s for dinner. This place serves awesome BBQ. We then headed back to the hotel to call it a night.
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