With picturesque postcard images and straightforward instructions, this book describes how to view and photograph famous and lesser-known sites, from the Lincoln Memorial and the White House to nearby Mount Vernon. Foster and Purcell give you complete directions to the sites and indicate what time of day and year will produce the most pleasing images and memories.
This detailed guide will help you enjoy, explore, and photograph Washington, D.C., whether you are an amateur photographer, a gifted professional, or an adventurer recording your experience graphically with a cell phone or a point-and-shoot camera. 96 color
Lee Foster is a veteran and award-winnging travel journalist, winner of eight Lowell Thomas Awards, including Lee being named Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year (Silver Winner).
Lee lives in Berkeley, California and develops travel books, ebooks, apps, articles, and photos, especially about Northern California and Washington DC. About half of his total work is writing and half is photography. All of Lee's involvement in travel journalism can be seen on his website at www.fostertravel.com.
Lee has four main current books, three of which are also available in Kindle. He also has six main legacy books, which are sought by collectors who want to have all of Lee's books.
Lee's main current books include two travel and photo guides from Countryman Press/Norton, titled The Photographer's Guide to San Francisco and The Photographer's Guide to Washington DC. Lee won a Lowell Thomas award for his travel guide Northern California History Weekends. Lee's recent travel literary book, Travels in an American Imagination, is about his vision that we live in both a wondrous and horrific time. That book won a Best Travel Commentary Award from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association.
