It's Saturday afternoon and in exactly one week from now I'll be boarding a plane to fly home to Atlanta. What a summer this has been. All of my expectations have been exceeded. I've learned more than I thought I would, saw more than I thought I would, and have had an all-around fantastic experience. I was told by our bureau chief at the beginning of the summer that the internship will be what I make of it, and I feel I can say confidently that I took advantage of every opportunity that I had.
I finished up this past week with a visit to the White House. I photographed Marine One landing on the South Lawn as President Obama came back from a trip to Michigan. Alan came too and since we don't know if we'll come back to the White House next week, we took the opportunity to take all the touristy pictures we wanted just in case. Below are photos of Obama saluting the Marine as he comes down the steps of Marine One, me in the White House press briefing room and me in front of the West Wing.
This week will be an entire week of building the Hearst photo archive. With the president out of town several days and the House in recess there won't be too much going on, but you never know what will come up. For now, I'm anticipating spending a lot of time with my computer and combing through the 20,000+ images I took this summer and pulling out the best of the best for the archive of people which Hearst will use photos of again. As a fun side project I will be building a blooper reel of the people in Washington I've photographed this summer. Let's face it, not every picture I take is going to be flattering and I've had some that are just downright hilarious so look for that towards the end of next week.
Still on my list of things to do and see: inside of the Library of Congress, go to Georgetown Cupcake, and walk Embassy Row.
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