I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine

Category: washington dc

  • Silver Spring Frescos

    Silver Spring, Md., a city in suburban Washington, D.C., if full of art. It’s downtown area has several theaters that feature live music, plays and film including the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, all conveniently located within walking distance of a Metrorail subway stop. Discovery Communications, whose stable of cable television properties…

  • Happy Labor Day Weekend: Flags at Rippon Lodge

    Happy Labor Day weekend to everyone! The photo above is of a United States flag reflected in an old style window pane at Rippon Lodge Historic Site in Prince William County, Va. To see how the entire front of the historic home was decked out with flags for the holiday weekend please see below.

  • Mascot Seating at a Potomac Nationals Game

    I saw this moment unfold while attending a Potomac Nationals baseball game in Woodbridge, Va., last week. Please see below for second photo and more text.   

  • Arlington Flowers

    The D.C. area has several wonderful places to photograph flowers and trees. There are parks that feature extensive gardens and of course there are the Cherry Blossoms. I was on assignment in Arlington, Va., earlier this week and found some photogenic flowers in places I did not expect to find them. The rose photo above…

  • Wordless Wednesday : Marine Corps War Memorial, Arlington Va.

    (please see second photo below)

  • Weekly Photo Challenge : Carefree Part II – Panda-mania at the National Zoo

    I cannot think of any animal more carefree than a Giant Panda. In Washington D.C., we are so lucky to have two of them at the National Zoo. As a matter of fact, according to local media reports, the National Zoo has been on a 24 Hour Panda Pregnancy Watch lately. Earlier this year I…

  • Red Door on Blue on M Street

    Every time I shoot photos in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C., at some point I become transfixed on this building on M Street.

  • Wordless Wednesday : Yellow Rose

  • Backyard Deer

    A couple of summers ago I was driving home through my neighborhood when I noticed a family of deer eating in one of my neighbor’s yards in the middle of the day.

  • Cool Thoughts on a Very Warm Day

    This weekend the Washington D.C. Area, along with most of the East Coast of the United States experienced its first official heat wave of the summer. So, in the spirit of getting everyone to think cool thoughts, I pulled this photo out of my oldies vault. I took it during the infamous “Snowmageddon” of February…