BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007)

DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007):

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Slide Show: Want to see the pictures as a slide show? [Slideshow]

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

Share: Facebook Twitter Digg
[1] HAINS_970207_01.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] HAINS_970207_02.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] HAINS_970207_03.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[4] HAINS_970207_04.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[5] HAINS_970207_06.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[6] HAINS_970207_07.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[7] HAINS_970207_08.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[8] HAINS_970207_09.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] HAINS_970207_13.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[10] HAINS_970207_15.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[11] HAINS_970207_17.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] HAINS_970207_19.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[13] HAINS_970207_21.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[14] HAINS_970207_23.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[15] HAINS_970207_25.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[16] HAINS_970207_27.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[17] HAINS_971006_01.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[18] HAINS_971006_02.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[19] HAINS_971006_03.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[20] HAINS_971006_04.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[21] HAINS_971006_05.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[22] HAINS_971006_06.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[23] HAINS_971006_07.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[24] HAINS_971006_08.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[25] HAINS_971006_09.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[26] HAINS_971006_10.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[27] HAINS_971006_12.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[28] HAINS_971006_13.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[29] HAINS_971006_14.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[30] HAINS_971006_15.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[31] HAINS_971006_17.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[32] HAINS_971006_18.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[33] HAINS_971006_19.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[34] HAINS_971006_20.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[35] HAINS_971006_21.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[36] HAINS_971006_24.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[37] HAINS_971006_25.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[38] HAINS_971006_26.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[39] HAINS_971006_29.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[40] HAINS_971006_32.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[41] HAINS_971006_34.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[42] HAINS_971006_36.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[43] HAINS_971006_38.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[44] HAINS_971006_40.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[45] HAINS_971006_42.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[46] HAINS_971006_44.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[47] HAINS_971006_46.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[48] HAINS_971006_48.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[49] HAINS_971006_50.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[50] HAINS_971006_52.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[51] HAINS_971006_54.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[52] HAINS_971006_56.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[53] HAINS_971006_58.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[54] HAINS_971006_60.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[55] HAINS_971006_62.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. HAINS_970207_01.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Overall (top) The statue at the end of Hains Point on the tip of East Potomac Park depicts "The Awakening". From my favorite source--Laura Bergheim's "The Washington Historical Atlas"-- East Potomac Park was created when the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Potomac in the 1880's. In the 1920's, the park was transformed into Hains Point, a popular tourist camp where travelers could park their cars and sleep over in rented tents (cost: $.50 a night) while visiting the local attractions. The camp included a miniature golf course, which is still in existence today, and a regular golf course. Today, the park's most famous feature is the startling aluminum statuary work, "The Awakening," created by Seward Johnson and installed here in 1980. The statue is divided into several parts, with the hands, knees, and face jutting up out the ground at different points, giving the illusion of a giant man bursting forth from the earth. In 1991, a car careened off the loop road and smashed into the giant's head. The head was hauled away for repairs in the fall of that year, leaving a decidedly decapitated appearance to the statue in the interim. --- The statue has five individual pieces; the giant's head, one arm stretching out, a hand, a foot, and a bended knee. The latter four are for each of the limbs of the giant and are arranged pretty much like the following: [HEAD] [STRETCH] [HEAD] [HAND] [HEAD] [KNEE] [KNEE] [FOOT] You can see most of the statue from this photo. The hand's missing but we'll see that shortly.
2. HAINS_970207_02.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts We finally see the hand.
3. HAINS_970207_03.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Foot study Some kid studying the foot. Note that when I first took pictures here, there was a wooden fence around the statue so they could do some maintenance. That's what you see here. Now, it's woodchip city all over the place.
4. HAINS_971006_01.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts More of the body.
5. HAINS_971006_02.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts Closer view of the face with the outstretched arm in the background.
6. HAINS_971006_03.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Head playground Just in case you were confused about the size of this sucker, here's some unknown kid who was playing around the site when I took my pictures. There are drainage holes drilled in various parts of the head to keep the water from filling them up. The Potomac River is in the background.
7. HAINS_971006_04.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts Another view of the outstretched hand and the head.
8. HAINS_971006_05.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts A perspective shot.
9. HAINS_971006_06.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts The pieces have complete detail. Look at the lines in the guy's fingernails.
10. HAINS_971006_07.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts Another perspective shot. That's his foot in the background.
11. HAINS_971006_08.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Overall (bottom) You can see the whole statue from this perspective.
12. HAINS_971006_09.JPG: Hains Point; "Awakening"; Body parts Here's a view of that outstretched arm.
Multi Column: Number of columns of thumbnails to appear per page (normally defaults to 3): [1 col] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Wikipedia Description: Hains Point
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hains Point is at the geographical location where the Anacostia River and the Potomac River converge in southwest Washington, D.C. Located at the southern tip of the East Potomac Park peninsula, it is located between the main branch of the Potomac River and the Washington Channel. It faces Fort Lesley McNair and the National War College, both of which are on the eastern shore of the Washington Channel, and Bolling Air Force Base, across the Anacostia River. To the west is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Further northwest on the peninsula is the location of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial.

A sculpture called "The Awakening" used to be located here but was moved to the National Harbor on February 19, 2008. Hains Point contains a children's playground and the East Potomac Golf Club. East Potomac Park is lined with a concrete walking/bike path around its perimeter, and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers often overflow their banks during high tide, covering the path with water.

The 3.2 mile (5.2 km) smooth, straight, and flat stretch of road around Hains Point (Buckeye Drive and Ohio Drive) is a favorite of the local bicycling and inline skating community. The loop goes clockwise and traffic is one way on Ohio Drive.

Hains Point is frequented by many local residents of the DC metropolitan area, particularly during the summer. Parking spaces can be found on Ohio Drive, which extends along the perimeter of the park. Hains Point can be accessed easily by persons with mobility problems.

Hains Point is named in memory of Peter Conover Hains, Major General, United States Army, who is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Hains was born in 1840 and died in 1921. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point.

--

The Awakening (Johnson sculpture)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Awakening" is a 100-foot statue of a giant embedded in the earth, struggling to free himself. ...More...
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Directly Related Pages: Other pages with content (DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007)) directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2007_DC_Hains: DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007) (35 photos from 2007)
- 2002_DC_Hains: DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007) (27 photos from 2002)
- 1999_DC_Hains: DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007) (39 photos from 1999)
- 1992_DC_Hains: DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007) (2 photos from 1992)
- 1986_DC_Hains: DC -- Hains Point (incl "The Awakening" until 2007) (13 photos from 1986)
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Park (National Park Service)] [Public Art]
1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Limiting Text: You can turn off all of this text by clicking this link: [Thumbnails Only]
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].