Political Storms bursts over Washington, DC

Political Storms bursts over Washington, DC, a photo by Sam Antonio Photography on Flickr.

People accuse me of “Photoshopping” my photographs. That’s crazy! All my photographs are SOOAA, that is “straight out of Apple Aperture.”

I was walking in Lafayette Square, a public park located directly north of the White House, in Washington, DC last week. I noticed these cumulus clouds and composed a couple of photographs. I know this is Washington, DC where everything is an illusion, but I pulled no magic tricks in post-production. I simply increased the contrast and bumped up the vibrancy. Mother nature gets all the credit for this one.

It has been a roller coaster week here in the nation’s capitol. Scandals have burst over the political weather front from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) limiting free speech to the Justice Department spying on reporter’s phone records.

I guess my “Photoshopping,” I mean my SOOAA skills, aren’t the only scandals brewing in Washington, DC.

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It’s Spring Time at the White House - Washington, DC

It’s Spring Time at the White House - Washington, DC, a photo by Sam Antonio Photography on Flickr.

Back in March I spent a couple of days in Tampa, Florida and then flew to Washington, DC to spend Easter with my sister and to photograph the cherry blossoms, where I had to wait for a week for them to bloom.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC is the address to one of America’s most famous residence. Occasionally you may spot President Obama milling around here when he is not too busy golfing around Hawaii or playing a pick up game of basketball.

Now where are those cherry blossoms?

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