Contributions of the group Washington DC

The Tomb Of George Washington

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:41:48 +0000

This is the tomb and final resting place of George Washington and his wife Martha, and is located at his house in Mount Vernon, Virginia. He died on December 14th, 1799 and is considered the "Father Of Our Country" - the United States Of America.

Camera - Minolta XD11
Lens – Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.A.

Arlington Memorial Amphitheater

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:22:48 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

Arlington Memorial Amphitheater is an open theater located at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County Virginia. It was completed in 1920. It is used for Veterans Day and Memorial Day events, as well as memorial services and funerals.

Camera - Minolta XD11
Lens - Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.A.

Minolta KSF 5075 Washington 1979-G 04gf

Capital Dome

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 21:00:56 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

Detail inside the dome of the Capital building.

Camera: Minolta XD11
Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Minolta KSF 5075 Washington-C 15df

Veteran's Day

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:20:13 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

November 11th is Veteran's Day here in the United States. I am a veteran myself and I want to thank every other veteran we've ever had for their service. This picture is of Arlington Cemetery, located in Washington, D.C. As you can see, some veterans gave all to keep us free.

Camera - Minolta XD11
Lens - Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Minolta KSF 5075 Washington 1979-G 10ef

Iwo Jima Monument

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:04:05 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

A truly inspiring monument located at our nation's capital.

Camera - Minolta XD11
Lens - Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Washington, D. C., U.S.A.

Minolta KSF 5075 Washington 1979-G 16ff

Home Of The Whopper

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:59:23 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

That guy who currently lives there sure tells a lot of (untrue) whoppers! One of his latest whoppers is that, while he was vice-president, he gave his uncle a Purple Heart medal. The only problem is, his uncle died 10 years before he became vice-president. Those kinds of whoppers.

Hotel Sunrise 1979

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:24:36 +0000

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This was the motel I stayed at while on a senior class trip to Washington, D.C. in May 1979.

Camera - Minolta XD11
Lens - Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.

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Cactus Flowers

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:16:55 +0000

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Japanese Stone Pagoda – Tidal Basin, Washington DC

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:23:04 +0000

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Veiled Chameleon – National Zoo, Washington DC

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:48:02 +0000

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Washington, D.C. At Night

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:11:03 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

Washington, D.C. at night, taken from atop the Washington Monument. That's the Capitol Building in the center.

Camera - Minolta XD11
Lens - Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film - Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.

Minolta KSF 5075 Washington-F 03ff

1979

nobody@ipernity.com (HaarFager) — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:29:05 +0000

HaarFager has posted:

Arlington National Cemetery, located in Washington, D.C.

Camera: Minolta XD11
Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film: Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm
Date: May 1979
Location: Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Minolta KSF 5075 Washington 1979-G 11ef

Unusual plants

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:39:44 +0000

Esther has posted:

U.S. Botanical Gardens in Washington D.C.

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Learning by doing

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:37:00 +0000

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National Gallery of Art

Monet's Bazille and Camille (Study for "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe")
1865

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della Robbia

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:36:52 +0000

Esther has posted:

"In the rich artistic culture of 15th-century Florence, the sculptor Luca della Robbia (1399/1400–1482) won renown for his innovations in the medium of glazed terracotta. Praised as “new, useful, and most beautiful,” this distinctive technique involved the application of colorful, reflective glazes to sculptures in fired clay. Luca’s methods established a durable and shining surface for ceramic sculpture of many kinds, from independent statues in the round to narrative reliefs and architectural ornament. His family workshop specialized in depictions of sacred history and devotional images of the Madonna and Christ child for a variety of settings, including altars and chapels within churches, exterior walls and gates, and the domestic realm. The sculptures’ humble materials expressed the spiritual value of humility, exalted by a luminous surface, while the skill with which they were fashioned and the visual clarity of the medium made them easy to read and understand. Through pure, expressive color and a refreshing simplicity of means, Della Robbia terracottas illuminated themes of salvation through Christian faith.

Luca collaborated closely for decades with his nephew, Andrea (1435–1525), who entered his workshop by 1451 and inherited it in 1482. Five of Andrea’s children joined the enterprise, carrying the family’s art into the 16th century. As their range of commissions grew, the Della Robbia increasingly explored other genres, such as portraiture, still life, landscape, and allegory, alongside canonical religious subjects. Della Robbia sculptures still grace the churches and squares of Florence and other Italian cities, while portable reliefs, statuettes, and busts by the family adorn museums throughout the world. This major loan exhibition is the first devoted to the Della Robbia in the United States, where a newfound appreciation for the beauty and ingenuity of Renaissance glazed ceramics emerged in the 19th century and continues today."

www.nga.gov/features/della-robbia-a-closer-look.html

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Ginevra de' Benci

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:36:42 +0000

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"She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine banker, and her portrait—the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas—was probably commissioned about the time of her marriage at age 16. Leonardo himself was only about six years older. The portrait is among his earliest experiments with the new medium of oil paint; some wrinkling of the surface shows he was still learning to control it. Still, the careful observation of nature and subtle three–dimensionality of Ginevra's face point unmistakably to the new naturalism with which Leonardo would transform Renaissance painting. Ginevra is modeled with gradually deepening veils of smoky shadow—not by line, not by abrupt transitions of color or light.

Other features of Ginevra's portrait reveal young Leonardo as an innovator. He placed her in an open setting at a time when women were still shown carefully sheltered within the walls of their family homes, with landscapes glimpsed only through open windows. The three–quarter pose, which shows her steady reserve, is among the first in Italian portraiture, for either sex."

www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50724.html

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Mercury

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:36:32 +0000

Esther has posted:

"Andrew Mellon selected American architect John Russell Pope (1874–1937) to design the building for the new museum. This edifice, now known as the West Building, has formal public entrances on all four sides. Its main floor plan is centered on a rotunda that was modeled after the ancient Roman Pantheon. To the east and west of the Rotunda, barrel-vaulted sculpture halls lead to garden courts, where greenery and fountains provide a restful haven for visitors. Interconnected exhibition galleries extend to the north and south of these large public spaces in such a way that, in principle, a visitor can begin in one room and proceed through the collection without backtracking."

www.nga.gov/about.html

For more about this scupture, see 1ufzqimnrfy1m6sw634fqcn7-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mercury_infosheet.pdf.

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A day in the art gallery

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:36:20 +0000

Esther has posted:

National Gallery of Art

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:36:16 +0000

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Pennsylvania Avenue

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 02:18:04 +0000

Esther has posted:

Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754 - 1825), laid out the basic design plan for Washington, D.C.

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