A year of Instagram in DC

[Cirrus]

I held off on joining Instagram for a long time, because I always thought why do I want a shittier version of Facebook just to share low-res photos one at a time? After all, I have Flickr for real photography, and Facebook and Twitter for social media.

But a year or so ago I gave in and joined (here I am), and you know what: I like it. Specifically, I like how it functions almost like a visual journal of the interesting things I see on a day-to-day basis. Instagram isn't for the kind of photo essays I put on Flickr. I never copy "real" photos to Instagram. Rather, it's simply a convenient way to snap 1 picture of whatever interesting thing I happen to see on the sidewalk.

So here you go. Selections from my first year on Instagram, starting recently and moving back in time to last year. Mostly from DC, but you'll see other cities too.


Sentinels.




Official color of DC: Flip-house grey.




Parking.




Best apartment wall in DC.




Bus stop.




Coming up.




Streetcard.




Cycletrack.




Old DC streetcar.




Road trip.




Roanoke.




Coming & going.




Turrets & lintels.




Three modes.




Birds.




Partial solar eclipse, barely visible as a chuck missing from the lower right corner of the sun. Best I could do with a cellphone.




Elizabeth.




Ballston by bus.




MARC.




Tysons via metro.




Dupont.




Obama.




Feel the love.




Race?




Traffic.




Secret art. Peer through a hole in a blank wall, and there it is.




Uninvited guest in the house.




Face off.




Rush.




Park(ing) Day.




Video archway.




Cufflinks.




Velocipede.




Sideling Hill.




Wheeling.




Columbus.




Cleveland inside.




Cleveland outside.




Rain.




Cockatiels.




Rowhouses.




Streetcar ahead.




Union Station.




Plaza.




BRT.




Q Street.




Skyline.




The last supper of 14th Street.




Maze.




The Cairo.




From the back seat.




Ornament.




Sad sunflowers.




Opening day on the Silver Line.




+1 for fountains.




Spanish Steps.




Ride into it.




Lazy Saturday.




Rosslyn.




Want a locomotive?




Fauquier County.




+1 for fountains.




Looking west.




Loudoun County.




Hirshhorn Museum.




Parrot and bike.




Lyft.




Lunch.




Civic beauty.




Anacostia.




Home.




Making friends.




Spring.




Suburbiana.




Fields of yellow.




Winston-Salem.




Cherry blossoms.




Market.




Nightmare.




Cheap entertainment.




Maryland.




Grow.




Needs love.




Buds.




Fairfax.




Moscow.




Greenland.




Amsterdam.




Paris.




Community activism.




Tivoli.




Snowball fight.




Traffic control is serious business.




Yarn-bombed.




Waterfront.




Library.




Ride.




Walmart.




Two patterns.




Post office.




Track work.




Metro.




Winter.




Leonardtown.




Plans.




Turn lane.




Mozambique.




National Gallery.




Lobby.




Ephemera.




Monastery.





That's enough, I think. Follow me on @beyonddc.

[streetscaper]

I love the 'Q street'.. Great shots, I love Instagram threads.

[novaCJ]

I remember driving by that horse-thing in Fairfax, I almost couldn't believe it. Some HOA is probably trying to take it down (it's that part of town, every building in a two mile radius of that place looks like that)

[ColDayMan]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Danny]

Great work! Thanks for all these varied pictures, Cirrus!

I´m not fan of Instagram, and I must say I prefer your usual high quality shots, but it´s another experience in photography, though I don´t like the resolution and quality of the images.

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain.

[mrnyc]

a fellow instagrammer! nice work.

i really need to use my camera more often, yet it's so quick and easy to just use the 'ol iphone. not to mention, you can use the phone in so many places you cant really use a camera or wouldn't want to. so that's what keeps instagram in play. plus i like lo-res best anyway.

[mthq]

wow I didn't knew you went to Europe this year! Congrats!

btw interesting that Aeroflot still has a hammer and sickle on its livery.

[Austinlee]

Epic.



I thoroughly enjoyed taking this tour with you.
I think I might start using Instagram because of you. I too didn't jump on board with it but I see at least a couple things that I photograph each day that would lend itself to an ongoing photo essay.

[ShooFlyPie]

I enjoyed this thread. I liked the variety of everything you had. Thanks for the thread. I also never thought of Sideling hill much before besides a place to piss and grab more coffee as I travel the PA turnpike extensively. That photo of the cut in the mountain lead me to a thirty minute research of the mountain and turnpike.