Back in April I decided to take a day trip to Washington DC, only an hour or so down the road from me. It is one of those places that is awesome to go to, but since it is so close I often neglect it.

Of course it was right in the middle of the Cherry Tree festival of which I’ve meant to take pictures of forever and finally decided it was time to do it.  Although it was a hot day and there were a ton of people there also admiring the trees the trip was well worth it. Worth it just to see the trees in bloom and I think I ended up with a few really good shots.

Oddly enough, one was nothing to do with the Cherry Tree festival, but the Washington Monument at Sunset. I had just taken the obligatory picture of the White House as was on my way back to the Metro stop and had to walk past the monument and the sky was just lighting up colors from the sunset so I had to stop and take a picture.

I’m finally getting around to start processing the rest of the photos that I think might be good, the White House not being one of them. 🙁  Couldn’t get across the street to take a picture through the fence as they had it closed off. Guess it was due the recent fence jumpers.

Here is a link to one of the Washington Monument Photos I’ve posted to my site as the feature image above doesn’t do it justice.

Washington Monument at Sunset posted on AmericanKiwiPhoto.com

Planning on another trip in August as one of my favorite photographers will be in town so if you are a fan of Trey Ratcliff check out his Photo Walk Tour page at tour.treyratcliff.com