Drew Smith Photography Blog

Discovery’s Final Mission – Part II

I was very lucky again last Thursday to get a spot at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center for the Shuttle Discovery Transfer Ceremony. I got to see the Shuttle Enterprise and Shuttle Discovery nose-to-nose, up close, and hear speeches from the head of NASA, the Smithsonian, and Sen. John Glenn, among others! [...]

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Discovery’s Final Mission

Got to experience a very special event today with the flyover of the Space Shuttle Discovery aboard a modified 747 as it flew on its final flight from Cape Canaveral to Dulles Airport. It made 4 passes over various parts of the city at low altitude and gave some great views of a very rare event! [...]

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Spring in Washington DC

Well, it may only be March but it might as well be April or even May in DC! Cherry blossoms are bursting out to join the many other flowering plants that are suddenly blooming. There are even tulips blooming on Capitol Hill!!! I spent another great morning with my son walking around exploring the Hill [...]

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Piqsure demo features two of Drew’s DC photos!

I’m honored to announce that Piqsure chose two of my images to demo it’s new high-res image display technology. This exciting new image viewing technology is going to be rolled out at Photoshop World in a few weeks, and basically it allows photographers and others to share very high resolution images in a way that [...]

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The Old Wonder Bread Factory (aka Dorsch’s White Cross Bakery)

A series of images taken at the old Wonder Bread Factory (aka Dorsch’s White Cross Bakery) in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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Happy Birthday, America!

Finally did something I’ve talked about doing for years and years and years – photographing the national fireworks show! Scoped out a great spot last week along the Mt. Vernon Trail on the Virginia side of the Potomac with a good lineup of the monuments, showed up early with my wonderful wife and enjoyed a [...]