Everyone's Waiting

Morning of the Solstice.

Derka Derka — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:49:40 +0000

The Washington Post contacted me asking if I would take some photos of the Winter Solstice for them… here are a couple of the shots. Kind of exciting though almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. 2 lenses went kaput, camera wouldn’t turn on consistently and the amount of coffee required to get me out of bed at 6:30am had some negative side effects. Many thanks to mikeontheinternets for letting me borrow his 8mm fisheye, which along w/ the simplistic, but always reliable, 50mm 1.8 saved the day. The following photos appeared on WashingtonPost.com

East Potomac Park

Morning Dew

Fisherman watching his lines.

East Potomac Park overlooking the Washington Channel.

America in Black & White…

Derka Derka — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:40:22 +0000

Olympic Penisula

Outside of Peabody, KS

Central Kansas

Big Sur

Toad at Land Between Lakes

Leadville, CO

Storm in the Grand Tetons

Yellowstone at Dusk

Seattle, Washington

Olympic Coast

Snowtober

Derka Derka — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:55:33 +0000

Had a random, albeit brief, October snowstorm. Grab the camera and went out for some shots… the photos along w/ a few others appeared on the Washington Post’s weather page…

Sparklemotion…

Derka Derka — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:05:18 +0000

Flooding

Derka Derka — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:04:36 +0000

In early September we got quite a bit of rain – some places 7+ inches in one day and event totals of over 15″. Some of these Pics ended up being featured on the Washington Post’s weather page which was pretty cool along with ArlNow, the up and coming Arlington News site.

Kirby Road in McLean starts to flood.

Tough weather to take pictures in… Damn you Autofocus.

Garage flooding in Alexandria — extremely difficult to get a good shot, my equipment was not liking the rain and the dark background (2:30am), and then the fluourescent lights reflecting off the flood water was just not something i was used to. Enough excuses – here’s some of the aftermath along Eisenhower Ave. in Alexandria.

Tangier Island

Derka Derka — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:13:27 +0000

Full Set on Flickr

Great Falls at Flood Stage

Derka Derka — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:52:14 +0000

8 shot panorama of Great Falls from the Virginia side.

we got about 1.5-2″ of rain in DC a couple days ago but some parts of the watershed got up to 4″.

Rural Virginia

Derka Derka — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:32:10 +0000

Trip to Highland & Bath Counties in western Virginia.

Bluegrass, Virginia

Presbyterian church in Headwaters, VA

Pacific NW

Derka Derka — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:27:47 +0000

Went to visit family & friends in Washington and Oregon…took tons of pics but here are a few.

Elk Creek, OR

Seattle Cityscape

View from the top of the Washington Monument

Derka Derka — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:27:11 +0000

7 shot stitch of the East view.

full set here

Tagged: Stitch, View, Washington Monument