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11-Oct-2020

1314 Independence Avenue SE (rear)

The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is offering a new walking tour, this time featuring murals around the Hill. We decided to stop by a few of them on our way home today, but it was raining, all I could use was my cell phone and we had left Sahraa outside (she was soaked and screaming on our deck when we got home). I agree with the CHRS comment at the end of their introduction below, that photographing these can be a challenge. For this picture, I had to move several trash bins out of the way but accidently left a big box in the frame, which I cut out.

“Capitol Hill is home to many dazzling (some, quite literally) works of art, painted on the exteriors of homes and businesses. Some murals are well known to the community – but we’ve included them because we love them and the Mural Tour wouldn’t be complete without them. Others may be familiar only to their immediate neighbors. Several of them have been on view for decades but many are more recent, including those that are part of the DC Statehood Murals project. A couple are on the sidewalk. One is not actually a mural at all but it’s art on the exterior of a structure, so no reason not to give it the attention it deserves. … Art is always best appreciated in person; particularly true in this case where the scale and placement of the work made photography a challenge.”

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Desperate, posted earlier:

Apple iPhone 11 Pro
1/120s f/1.8 at 4.2mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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meekam tam02-Nov-2020 04:13
Beautiful wall painting, Helen! V
Zoltán Balogh28-Oct-2020 06:50
So beautiful! V
Ton T.15-Oct-2020 17:31
Fascinating mural! It has an oriental atmosphere V
Apostolos Tikopoulos15-Oct-2020 15:57
Nice work with this beautiful mural. V.
carol j. phipps15-Oct-2020 01:32
Pleasing POV on this scene. V
Pierre13-Oct-2020 15:48
Une porte de garage magnifiquement décorée de cette jolie murale, une superbe présentation! V
Graeme13-Oct-2020 12:26
This is a very colourful garage door painting!! V!!
Julie Oldfield13-Oct-2020 01:13
Well worth the effort to photograph this. It’s very eye catching. V
Don Mottershead12-Oct-2020 23:23
Looks like two against one in this family squabble. Excellent capture of this striking mural.
Jean Chiasson12-Oct-2020 22:35
Beautiful mural presentation Helen V
Liz Bickel12-Oct-2020 19:47
What cool project with fantastic artwork. Great capture of this scene.
janescottcumming12-Oct-2020 16:46
Great job with the framing for this cool artwork. V
Claude Gagnon12-Oct-2020 14:25
This is awesome ! Nice framing with the leaves and bricks :))
Jeff Real12-Oct-2020 13:48
What a wonderful find and a really stunning image!
Love the color.
V
marie-jose wolff12-Oct-2020 10:28
fine capture of this beautiful mural so well framed by ivy! V
John Hamers12-Oct-2020 09:52
Beautiful mural with love;y colors. Nicely captured. !V
Blandine Mangin12-Oct-2020 06:35
belle peinture murale ! v
Fong Lam12-Oct-2020 04:17
A beautiful mural, probably oriental, with captivating colors well captured and framed...V
Neil Marcus12-Oct-2020 02:01
Sometimes it happens that y"stage" the scene. In thicase it was well worth it.



























Once in a while you have to move things to "stage' the scene. It was well worth it here. "V"



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Kevin Warren12-Oct-2020 01:36
That is a very cool garage door mural - you framed it so nicely between the brick and the ivy.
Jola Dziubinska12-Oct-2020 00:11
A very nice mural, I like it. Cool find, Helen. V.
bill friedlander11-Oct-2020 23:15
Great job capturing this oriental looking mural. V
Dennis Hoyne11-Oct-2020 22:43
Beautiful artwork with an oriental flare, Nicely photographed, I love how the vine leaves and brickwork frame it .
Hank Vander Velde11-Oct-2020 21:31
A well captured and well framed image Helen. Nice artwork.
hayl11-Oct-2020 20:06
You've done a terrific job of getting this photo. Framing the mural with the vines and brick wall is perfect.