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This was taken on my first day of visiting the cherry blossoms in DC this year. I was watching the sunrising while I was on my way there and could not wait to park my car. I don’t know if I’ve ever walked so fast in my life to get to my perfect spot. The sun rises quick!

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There are so many people at the Tidal Basin in the mornings because of the cherry blossoms, that you kind of feel overwhelmed. Its hard to get a good spot, unless you get there super early or you decide to go against the crowd and photograph something else. Everybody seemed to be shooting the Jefferson Memorial, but I noticed that the Washington Monument had all this color behind it. So, I quickly turned my camera from the Jefferson to the Monument and found a perfect spot where the cherry blossoms were framing it.

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Cherry Blossoms time is one of my favorite times in DC. Even though it gets really crowded, I love seeing flowers on trees. It just makes me really happy. This morning, I spent 2 hours just looking up. I love it!

Now, if only the temperature was more like spring. It’s freezing out there!

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I tried to avoid the Cherry Blossom festival this weekend. I knew there would be TONS of people in DC and I wanted to try to avoid most of the crowd. I have big plans of going to DC this week to shoot these amazing trees. So watch out for them.

In the meantime, I went to Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, VA to practice my flower shots.

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