On a seemingly random day, I got a call from a friend of mine who lives in Richmond. He was coming to DC the next day and was going to visit some museums and invited me to come along. Luckily, I was free that day and brought my Canon XS. I’ve been meaning to go to DC again to take pictures and this was one trip of many to come. [Maps]
View of the capitol; the Washington monument is directly behind me.
The Natural History museum
This is the imposing view at the entrance of the museum; which was packed!
Triceratops had quite a big head, scientifically speaking, of course.
I don't know what kind of creature this is but I appreciate the inclusion of the background to give a hint.
There's a huge minerals section on the second level which includes all kinds of gems as well.
The entrance to pan's labyrinth, or a strange tree formation; what's your take?
Layers of rock that has been folded into waves by geological processes, or something of that nature.
Cutting a meteorite reveals that it's made of metal!
Once outside, I managed a quick pick of this beautiful archway.
Inside the old post office there's a large open food court. This is the view looking up from the court.
At the top of the old post office.
The air and space museum.
Sputnick and a beautiful symmetric roof in the background.
Reconstruction of the moon landing; kind of surreal in that its very much exactly how it happen yet a couple hundred thousand miles away!
A beautiful scale reproduction of the shuttle.
A scale reproduction of the international space station shows how complex it really is.
Now the top view of the rockets.
A contrast of many generations of air travel.
These are the planes that commercial airlines used before the new planes with turbines arrived.
The predator is a fairly large drone plane.
A night time view of the museum is very inviting to your curiosity.
The capitol at night looks great.