The Easter Pulpit

Out and About in Old Town

We took some friends to visit our church while we were out and about enjoying the weather, and I carried the camera along to practice the black-and-white shots I love. The shot above is one of the windows near the altar (I really wanted to get the shutter, candle, and outside lamppost together), and the one below is the box pew used by George Washington and his family when they were parishioners in the late 1700s.

Capitol Hill - Random Shots

I was back in D.C. today for some meetings and interviews, and while walking from one location to another I experimented with some black-and-white photography. The shot above is of a Catholic Church on the Senate side of Capitol Hill, and the shot below if of one of the stone eagles supporting a sizeable bench near the Library of Congress.

Following in Washington's Footsteps

My wife had a meeting tonight of the subcommittee she chairs at our church (Christ Church, in Old Town Alexandria), and since she could have the baby at any moment I agreed to drive her to and from the gathering (with her suitcase in the back of the car, just in case). While she was in the meeting, I wandered around the churchyard, trying to get some good night shots of the exterior of the building. I was very disappointed in most, since I'm still trying to master night shots, but I was pretty happy with these -- the entrance to the sanctuary, and the exterior of the building at the altar end of the building.

I really love attending this church: for the liturgy, the congregation and clergy, and the history. George Washington (a vestryman) and Robert E. Lee both attended here, and the Washington pew is still one of the highlights for visitors to the church; in fact, it's rather amusing watching newcomers on Sunday mornings scramble to have the honor of sitting in his box. Sitting in the churchyard, I was trying to block out the traffic and imagine what it would have been like to be a parishioner here two centuries ago.....