I love protests. Truth is, regardless of what people are protesting about, I love photographing the excitement, the signs, and the passion people bring to their rallies. Working just a few steps from the National Mall, I have many opportunities to get down there and capture some of the spirit. It’s a double bonus when the rally is about something I believe in.
Sometimes it feels like college again. Like when your friends and their friends and their friends all get together on the National Mall and play wiffle ball. And then you go play beer pong in a basement. It’s not quite like college, though, because now there are married people. And babies.
George was really in his element today. I volunteered as a photographer for the USA Science & Engineering Festival, a massive science fair that basically took over all of downtown Washington this weekend. I cannot think of a single field that was not represented. I’m talking huge – this festival not only took up three blocks’ worth of the National Mall, but spilled with impressive size into Freedom and Wilson Plazas and over a sizable stretch of Pennsylvania. It was a sight to be seen.