Going to the Jefferson Memorial to get a good image for me is a bit like going to the refrigerator repeatedly throughout the day hoping each time I'll find something enticing that I didn't notice the time before. The troubles I have is when I'm at the monument, I'm sorta on an island occupied almost entirely by the deceptively large monument. And if I want to shoot from across the Tidal Basin, I need a much better telephoto lens than what I've got. But some weeks ago I took a portrait of a friend of mine at the monument and it really turned out well, so I know something up close can turn out well.
I shot this with my iPhone 8s Plus, then fiddled a bit with the basic color adjustments available on the phone's native software. While a few people have wondered if the pillars were lit up with green lights, it was just the minor adjustments I made that brought out the four layers of coloring that I love so much about this image. I also took the exact same image with my Canon SLR, and played with the colors on it as well; and was completely unsuccessful in coming up with anything as dynamic, yet "real" looking, as this one.
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