DC Photo shoot video
Here is a video I made of my primary photoshoot in DC. I wanted to make this after seeing damage to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool by vandals. Somehow, seeing objects like these destroyed or defaced bothers me at least as much as watching hooligans attack people.
The reason, I think, is that the hooligans announce their intentions when they attack a statue or some other memorial. They aren’t just attacking the stone, but the subject of the monument, the people who made it and maintain it, and those who are inspired by it.
An attack on the reflecting pool as an attempt to ruin our inspiration and crush our spirit. I hope the perpetrators are punished so severely and so publicly that no one dare try it again.
I really enjoyed the video. I wondered at the lack of traffic. Did you choose a time of day when less people might be visiting or was it truly uncrowded? I know nothing about photography but enjoyed seeing your craft and our beautiful monuments
A smoke shrouded and half staffed DC was serendipitous to the purpose of your trip. Your monument montage and video, pulled from the miasma, is a magnificent tribute to the continuity of what’s made our country great. The accompanying music reminds me of Morricone’s ‘Cinema Paradiso’
The Missing Monument in Washington DC belongs to second President John Adams. He deserves one. Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Adams helped shape our Constitution, however, being in Europe at the time, his signature does not appear on the document. The quote scrolled behind his statue should be what many of us might call the unwritten ‘Caveat Amendment’ to our Constitution.
“Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The Communist/Socialist thing has come at us incrementally over the past century. Voter disenfranchisement via today’s weaponized black boxes, non-citizen and vote by mail dilution has accelerated its methodical movement. It became visible in 2020. Did we really ‘consent’ to a candidate suffering dementia to become our 46th president? Are we really electing communist mayors in New York and Los Angeles? What will emerge from the haze?