Beautiful Sunday and Sublime Sunday
Today was a most beautiful day, sublimely so... filled with sunshine and kites at the Washington Monument. Another perfect day for a perfect day.
Oh, beauty!
Oh oh oh
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go, fly a kite!
An excerpt from "Let's go fly a kite" - Walt Disney's Mary Poppins
Planted firmly on the high pinnacle of American faith, the gently fluttering folds are an inspiration of things that can be
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It was a cool and slightly windy day today. Just the kind of day we dream of when we get our kite out to fly, way up high. There are so many and so many people, obviously many had the same idea as I did.
You know what I say? The more, the merrier!
Kites
Over
The
Capitol
The Washington Monument and me. I breathe deeply and wander down to the Tidal Basin where all the action is at the moment.
Delectable. It never gets old to me. Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin. Glorious. Some things in life are absolutes. This is one one of them.
Today is BeautifulSunday by @Ace108 and #SublimeSunday by @coff33a ... I hope you enjoyed your day! What did you do with your beautiful Sunday?
Let the sun shine in on your life
So the joy may touch your soul
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These are all so inspiring! Just wow! Look at the wonderful colors. The sight of Old Glory blowing in the wind, just magnificent! As per usual, you always outdo yourself and raise the bar so much higher. Well done, Sunshine!
I needed to see some blue sky today!
Those kites are also so beautiful...love the dinosaur! <3
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@creativesoul : Thank you so much for such a sweet comment, flying kites on a windy day totally get my meter running. :)
The Washington Monument is the perfect place to do this, the wind picks up and takes it away! The dinosaur is awesome and I even got to see a dragon and Tinkerbell. You just never know who you will meet.
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whoa... a so cool location to fly kite.
Thank you so much Ace. I always think that I am going to get a beautiful Sunday done and I blink and it's Monday. This time I was determined to send you something. Happy Monday and I hope that you have a nice week.
Oh my! What a beautiful day Denise @dswigle. Your photographs capture it sublimely. They really do.
How could you not have a beautiful Sunday in such an atmosphere?
I wonder what you would have done we our grey, wet day. I'd love to see what you could do with that. 😊
I wasn't aware of these contests but keeping them in mind on a grey, wet Sunday might help me to see things a little differently.
Given the weather laterly it would be good to find a way to see beauty in grey. Mostly I see flat light and little contrast which leads to a not worth taking a picture attitude.
i'm going to be more open in future. See . . . look what you've inspired! 😂
Oh, but to be able to be part of the kite flying! It was a wonderful day and there were more people there than at many festivals!
Some of these are contests, some are challenges. They are usually pretty specific. Hopefully, your grey will find its way to some sun and shine!
I can say that if the day were filled with gloom, I would take it down to the water or the forest, usually a most interesting kind of light in the forest or perhaps do some still life indoors. There is always a great option, just waiting to be discovered.
I have done quite a bit of still life indoors in the poor weather @dswigle but a bit out of desperation rather than design. And I find the lighting aspect really tricky so I tend to just take something as near to the window as possible, with the overhead light on, and hope for the best. 😁
I did buy a small light box some time a go but have never used it. And I do have a couple of daylight lamps so maybe I should experiment with those.
At the moment I'm on a getting out of the house crusade as I spend way too much time in front of a computer screen, on my own and Steemit has made that worse! 😁
I'm completely new to intentional photography (as in entering contests) and I only have my phone so I've much to learn and experiment with.
Thanks for your suggestions!
😍
Gorgeous sky and a really nice looking day out there. I've only been to D.C. a few times, and spent all of it pedaling around the Mall area and museuming. Which was more fun than a barrel full of Macaques.
So that is not a 'special' kite day, or festival, just a normal day on the Mall with all the kite flyer's? That is amazing. Do they ever get tangled up, and lead to 'disagreements'? They're probably good flyers, and not a problem. Thanks for sharing a really gorgeous day out for S.S.
No, we are still in kite mode as it was only a few weeks ago (the kite festival) It is rare to get tangled up, but it doesn' happen. In the summer months, the Mall is always filled with soccer games, organized and unorganized fun and always the kites on a windy day.
It is a great place to live if you like activity. :)
Beautiful shots I love that Kite it is so cool and colorful
Thank so much Jj! So much appreciated! It was the most colorful thing out there!
Cheers I hope your week is going well
You got some great shots here Denise. I liked the close up vertical photo of the monument.
Just watched the spiderman movie and discovered that there is an elevator inside that you can take to the top. How cool is that?
Thank you so much, Michael! There is an elevator there and I cannot tell you how many times the elevator has broken down and closed down the Monument.
In fairness, when it is working, it is such an amazing place! ;)
I bet the view from the top is brilliant. Great photo-op? Next time maybe?
Thank you so much, Michael!!
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Wow that's an stunning day awesome photos you shared dear this is so amazing :D
It truly was an amazing day full of fun! Thank you for sharing it with me!
An imposing monument revealed by beautiful and inspired photos. A strong patriotic feeling!
I love that monument and the different perspectives it shows off. Thank you, Dan! I hope you having a most wonderful day and you have an amazing week!
Well, this monument reveals power, the power of the most powerful country! It is an obelisk, as I can see. The day was wonderful...almost summer like. Wish you a wonderful week Denise!
A sublime looking day, indeed. That dinosaur kite was super cool:)
Totally sublime! Come on, Pryde! Let's go fly a kite! :)
Name the time, pretty lady:)