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- Day Safari
- 2.5 Hours
Photograph huge picture windows, Jeffersonian-style arching domes, and the built-in artwork of architect Cesar Pelli’s $300 million Terminal B/C at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Quick Details
We are pleased to offer a photo safari to the 245,000 sq. ft. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport. The fee covers transportation to the museum from Rosslyn Metro, and return, and museum parking.
This place is an airplane-lover’s candy store filled with the actual airplanes themselves, not replicas! The museum, housed in a gigantic airplane hangar, offers a spectacular bonanza of telephoto and wide-angle photo opportunities, beginning with the exterior views and then moving to capture the unique historic treasures in each of the galleries, especially the supersonic Concorde, the Enola Gay, the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Lockheed SR71 Blackbird, Japanese Zeros, the first Luftwaffe jet plane, a vast array of helicopters and World War I fighter planes, and the German fighter Focke Wulf 190, as we practice interior low-light photography and mixed lighting w/o flash, with an emphasis on achieving correct color balance and interesting composition.
Bring a DSLR camera or mirrorless camera, with wide, medium and long lenses. no tripods. If you have a “fast” 50mm F1.4 or F1.8 lens, or a 35 mm F1.8, bring it! This is a also a great safari for smartphone users!
Meet outside of Rosslyn Metro station at 1850 North Lynne Street in Arlington VA. Clients preferring to meet at museum should meet us at Museum entrance at 2:30 pm at 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly VA.
E. David Luria is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari, which has trained over 41,500 amateur photographers – an average of 5 people every day, 365 days a year, since it was founded in 1999. Trained in Paris by a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Luria is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Society of Photographic Educators and has had his images of DC appear in over 100 publications, calendars, and postcards and on 30 magazine covers.