This shot was almost impossible to get.  The size of the Udvar-Hazy building is impossible to imagine, but the number of people who take photos of the space shuttle made this very hard.  It took a while for most of the people to clear out and I only had time for one shot.

I was underwhelmed by the size of the space shuttle.  I always imagined it as being about twice this size.  But, alas, I was wrong.  However, that did not take away from the sheer awsomeness of being in the presence of a space shuttle.  Even if it never made it to space of is actually a real one.  It was still great.

I think I am going to go through old photos tomorrow, if I have time.  I really enjoy going through my old stuff.  I think I have some where in the neighborhood of 40,000 (of course that is a ballpark figure) images.  It is neat looking back over the different techniques I have learned and how it has shaped my photographic vision.

I had so much fun in Washington D.C. and especially at the Udvar-Hazy center.  How many places can you go where yo can see a full space shuttle, SR-71 Blackbird, Concord, the Enola Gay and hundreds of other airplanes.  I did not have enough time and was running all over the place to take in all that I wanted to see.  Next time, I am going to take a day to just look and plan a photographic trip, then the next day I will execute the plan, which will immediately proceed to fall apart at first contact.

All of the photos I managed to take here were off-hand.  Talk about a challenge.