• Learn how to take pictures with professional results!
• Friendly, trained photographers will give you hands-on tips and advice
• Photograph many of the monuments in Washington DC including The White House, Lincoln Memorial and Union Station
• Offered as a half-day or full-day tour for your convenience
• This tour is open to any photographer at any skill level!

Learn how to take pictures like the professionals! Join the  “Monuments and Memorials” workshop, offered as a half-day or full day session.

For the half-day session, Paris-trained architectural photographer E. David Luria takes you to the most popular monuments and historic buildings in Washington DC.  Destinations include: The White House, Lafayette Park, the Albert Einstein, Lincoln, Korea, Vietnam, and Vietnam Women's Memorials, and finally to Union Station.

As you are taking the pictures, Mr. Luria gives you hands-on tips in basic architectural photography, exposure, composition, lighting, outdoor and portraiture.  At the Union Station, you will also gain techniques in interior photography without a flash or tripod.

The full-day version offered on Wednesdays includes the morning session described above. After lunch in Union Station, the tour goes on to the colorful Adams Morgan district for training in creative abstract photography.  Then you will travel to the magnificent Washington National Cathedral where you will learn how to photograph church interiors and some of the most beautiful stained church windows you have ever seen!

The afternoon session ends at the spectacular 76-foot tall Iwo Jima Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, where you can take a photo like the famous one taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal on Mt. Suribachi in 1945. Capture each of the six soldiers depicted in Clint Eastwood's recent movie, Flag of our Fathers, with the Washington Monument and US Capitol in the background.

This tour is open to any photographer at any skill level with any camera, film or digital. No tripod needed on the morning itinerary.