Monuments & Memorials

Travel Photography of Monuments and Memorials

Personally conducted by professional architectural photographer and WPS Director E. David Luria, the Monuments and Memorials photo safari – our most popular session –  provides basic instruction on all aspects of travel photography, explains F-stops, shutter speeds, white balance, ISO settings, and reviews composition techniques for taking pictures of people, landscapes and cityscapes.

Learn how to use your camera in the field, not in a classroom on this DC photography workshop, with attendance limited to clients with any camera or phone who are masked and vaccinated against COVID-19. Beginner photographers will appreciate the instruction on how to get full use of all their camera settings, getting off of “Auto.” Intermediate and advanced photographers will benefit from Mr. Luria’s extensive knowledge of when, where, and how to shoot all the best photo ops in the DC area.

After a 45-minute orientation on travel photography techniques, our shooting itinerary will take us to adjoining Lafayette Park and to the White House, then by car to the Albert Einstein  Memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Korean War Memorial – all great subjects for photography. We will end up the morning session at Union Station, where we will discuss interior photography without flash or tripod, and where I will show you how to make all the moving people inside Union Station DISAPPEAR, and how to turn your friends into GHOSTS! How cool is THAT?

Our morning safari will end about 1:10 pm, and we will have lunch at the food court in Union Station. We all pay for our own lunches.

For the All-Day Safari, in the afternoon we go on to photograph the US Capitol building, the nearby US Botanic Gardens and its beautiful Bartholdi Fountains, then to the Adams-Morgan neighborhood for some abstract photography, then our last stop will be at the beautiful Washington National Cathedral for interior and exterior church photography. (Your fee includes a donation to Washington National Cathedral’s 2011 earthquake repair fund.) we will drop you at the Tenleytown Metro on the Metro Red Line at about 5:15 pm.

Here is a recent review from Trip Advisor: Perfect for All Levels of Photographic Expertise

As a resident of the Washington area and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, I’ve taken over a dozen of David Luria’s photo safaris and learned something new about photography on each one. On each safari, he not only orients the group as a whole, but he also spends one-on-one time with each student, gearing his advice to the level of sophistication of that individual. His knowledge of photographic technique and his unlimited patience make him one of the best photography instructors I’ve encountered. I highly recommend his tours.

–Greg E.