The National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian American Art Museum has a few nooks and crannies that you can easily miss if you're not paying attention. That little doorway at the end of the hall that appears to be a dead end, for example, opens up into this wing that lets you into this room. Three floors of marvelous marble pillars, and artwork around every corner like it were a library. The natural light coming through the skylights cast a cool glow into the room. The settings on the camera must have been for the wrong type of light source; but, no matter, I like the glow of both the blue and the warm yellow lights hanging down.
Taken with an iPhone 5s with the wrong settings, I wouldn't have found this room (and the massive courtyard in the middle of the building) if I didn't have a bit of explorer in me that wasn't afraid to keep looking until a security guard told me to stop.
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