The Great Emancipator
| Date Taken | 03/08/2010, 4:02pm |
| Shutter Speed | 1/50 |
| f/stop | 56/10 |
| ISO | 400 |
| Focal Length | 48/1 |
Around August, when this photo was taken, Washington was teeming with tourists. You can’t see any in this photo (due to the size of the statue), but there were literally hundreds surrounding me, just out of shot. It was hard to pick out where people were from, but my impression was that a large proportion were American. It is as though the walk down the mall from the Capitol building to the Lincoln memorial is a kind of pilgrimage, each stone basted with sticky nostalgia. It certainly ‘feels’ American: everything has a sense of being new, more tangible, more immediate. It is, I suppose, where America was born.
This is the personal blog of Michael Murphy, who currently resides in Cambridge, 
