BGuthrie Photos: DC -- 9/11 day after

DC -- 9/11 day after:

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Description of Pictures: On September 11, I was on leave from work, writing a long description of my just-completed three-week trip to New England. I had no idea what had happened until a friend called from California somewhere around 2pm. As a result, I always felt that I had missed a fair amount of the feeling of September 11 and that probably helped account for why I ended up visiting the Pentagon, the World Trade Center site, and the Shanksville Pennsylvania site (where the fourth plane had crashed).

When I came into work the day after, I went into my boss' office and found she could still see smoke rising from the Pentagon building. During lunch, I tried to walk to the Pentagon. The streets were pretty well empty of tourists and pedestrians but there were lots of police around. As I neared the Pentagon, I ran into a police line. They said there were rumors of another missing plane and sent us on our way.

Afterward, I went to a parking garage at Pentagon City which gave me a view of the damaged section of the Pentagon. It's amazing to consider that a chunk of the Interstate runs right by it. It must have been hell during the attack.

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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.

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1. DC911_010912_01.JPG: I wanted to walk to the Pentagon so I got on the streets and started moving. They were empty except for a lot of cops from all sorts of jurisdictions.
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2001 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. Trips this year: This was the year of 9/11 and many of the places that had been commonplace to visit beforehand suddenly became a pain in the neck or not available at all. I took a two-week trip right before 9/11 in New England and then took a one-week trip afterward to North Carolina. Image quality for my pictures is variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints at varying quality/resolutions. The Great Pandemic Digitizing Project: When I was first setting up my website in August, 2000, I had decided to digitize some of my favorite pre-digital slides and prints. The scans were fairly low resolution but they were good enough. With COVID forcing me to stay indoors, I decided to rescan ALL of my pre-digital images from multiple sources (slides, prints, and negatives) at a much higher resolution and quality setting. (I digitized Dad's slides at the same time). Instead of replacing my original scans, I added the new scans to existing pages, figuring I'd select the best ones later. As a result, multiple versions of images appear on most of these early pages. At some point, I'll take the time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates.
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