Blue Water

Today I had to meet a model down by the Smithsonian so I got there early to take some landscape pictures. I was completely surprised by how blue the Tidal Basin was photographing. It's always a hideous shade of brown/green. Here's what it looks like when you shoot it straight on:

And here is how it photographed when I took in the whole scene. Honestly, I didn't have a polarizing filter on my camera, and I didn't edit the sky or water in photoshop. It was really shooting that blue. I guess the water was reflecting the perfectly blue sky. I just kept taking pictures because I couldn't believe how blue everything was! I thought it was a fluke.

And those trees are the Cherry Blossom trees. They look amazing in the spring and also in the fall.