When you go to a touristy place, it’s hard to get a photo that nobody has ever gotten before. Especially when you are visiting an iconic and photogenic destination in the middle of the day, when most other people are there also.

I guess what I am saying is that although I like these photos, you’ve probably seen them all before…

After a long weekend of seminars at Photoshop World, Gillian and I were just antsy to go out and shoot some photos! The weather was finally behaving on Monday, so we hopped on the metro from the convention center and landed ourselves at the Smithsonian stop right in the middle of the National Mall. We got our cameras out and started wandering, our first stop the Smithsonian Institution! We didn’t go inside, but we shot a few photos outside…

There are a lot of big differences between New York City and Washington D.C., two historic and iconic cities in the United States. One difference is the mass transportation. Everything in New York seems to be a bit dirty and grimy, especially the subway. In D.C., however, it is amazingly clean and beautiful. The architecture is the same in all the stations, and it is very easy to figure out.

On the last day, we found out why the metro was so clean. Gillian and I were on our way back to our hotel to pick up our bags and head to the train station, but we were so hungry that we picked up some food beforehand- I got a salad from Potbelly but we didn’t have time to eat right then so we took our food with us. I started eating a little bit on the metro to settle my growling tummy, and a lady in her mid-forties, very business-like with her briefcase and notebooks, came up to me and said, “You know, it’s illegal to eat on the metro.” She then sat in a seat right next to us and kept her eye on me until we got off at our stop ten minutes later.

Thanks, good citizen, for informing me before you whipped out your handcuffs and performed a citizen’s arrest.