- Day Safari
- 2 Hours
The Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is one of the most beautiful buildings in the nation’s capital with its ornate interiors and grand staircases.
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Its ornate interiors and grand staircases, gold-colored ceilings and arches, interspersed with statuary and paintings, are as magnificent as any structure you will find in Europe.
Twice each year, the Library of Congress opens its magnificent Main Reading Room to share information about how the public can access the Library’s resources year-round. The first open house of the year is on President’s Day, and the second is on Columbus Day – and we will be allowed to take photographs inside this most spectacular part of the Library of Congress! Since this is one of the few days each year when they allow the public into this space, we want to give you a chance to see that whole venue from the ground up!
Prior to entering the Reading Room, Washington Photo Safari founder E. David Luria will provide tips and techniques for interior architectural photography. We will concentrate first on the Reading Room and then if the rooms are open, move from the Reading Room to photograph the Great Hall and the Main Reading from above, looking down. We will then go outside and photograph the building exterior with its statuary and fountains. Emphasis will be placed on composition and lighting.
Provided that the rooms are open, we will also get to photograph the multi-million-dollar Stradivarius Violin, Viola and Cello that are on display in one of the exhibit rooms during this safari.
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– Camera
– Extra charged battery
– Extra memory cards
– Weather appropriate clothing -
Meet in the Library of Congress, at the Reading Room entrance behind the Great Hall, near the Gutenberg Bible display, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC.
David will be in a red jacket and Safari hat. -
E. David Luria is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari, which has trained over 41,500 amateur photographers – an average of 5 people every day, 365 days a year, since it was founded in 1999. Trained in Paris by a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Luria is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Society of Photographic Educators and has had his images of DC appear in over 100 publications, calendars, and postcards and on 30 magazine covers.