DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Illumination: Wear Orange (2019):
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Description of Pictures: Lighting Of The National Cathedral For Wear Orange
The façade of the Washington National Cathedral will light up in orange in honor of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, Hadiya Pendleton and the over 100,000 Americans killed and injured in the United States every year by gun violence. The Bourdon Bell will ring 109 times at 9 pm in memory of Americans who die daily from gunfire. We hope you will join with others at the Cathedral for this quiet, respectful and powerful event at which you can remember and honor those who have died and reflect on the reason why the Cathedral and so many other buildings and people across the country are wearing orange. Above-ground parking is available.
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ORANGE_190607_072.JPG: Remember the dead!
And do something for the living!
ORANGE_190607_080.JPG: Remember someone
ORANGE_190607_244.JPG: The National Cathedral was bathed in orange light on Friday night as part of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. And the bells rang 109 times to mark the average number of lives lost to gun violence each day in America.
The event started as a tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, an honor student from Chicago, who was gunned down a week after her high school band marched in President Obama's 2013 inaugural parade. The color is the color of safety -- what people in forests wear to avoid being shot by hunters -- as a way of saying stop gun violence.
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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