Uploads from thisisbossi, tagged princeofpetworth

2013 04 20 - 10229 - DC - AwesomeCon

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:25:02 -0700

The inaugural AwesomeCon, held at the DC Convention Center.

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2013 04 22 - Used by PoPville

2013 02 25 - 0527-0529,0554 - DC - Full Moon

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:30:39 -0800

thisisbossi posted a photo:

The full Moon rising over DC on the night of 25 February 2013. Post-processing edits as follows:

SKY - I overlaid a shot of the Moon from the same time, albeit at a faster exposure & smaller aperture. The sky was manually blackened to clear light pollution, haze, and image noise resulting from shooting at a high ISO. The glow around the moon from light pollution & haze would've been awkward when combined with the crisp shot from the faster exposure / smaller aperture.

GROUND - The ground level is an HDR processed from three images, meaning it's a combination of a darker shot, a normal shot, and a bright shot. I manually filled over-saturation artifacts (where over-exposed spots "burn" bright colors into the whiteness; results of the HDR method I used). Lastly, the image was converted to black & white to compensate for the harsh sodium-lit color palette & tinted by 3% to add a slight touch of warmth while still looking black & white.

Total work time - About 30 minutes. I could've spent more edging the horizon & around the construction, but opted instead to rush so I could get to bed on a work-night. So moral of the story: don't view & nitpick at full-resolution.

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2013 03 01 - Used by Greater Greater Washington
2013 02 26 - Explored!
2013 02 25 - Used by Prince of Petworth
2013 02 25 - Used by DCist
2013 02 25 - Used by Famous DC

2012 09 29 - 2814 - DC - Alley of Doom

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:22:39 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

The Alley of Doom in the alleys bounded by 14th Street, 15th Street, T Street, and U Street in Northwest.

“Unicyles… why did it have to be unicycles…”

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2012 10 08 - Used by Borderstan.
2012 10 04 - Used by WAMU.
2012 10 03 - Used by Prince of Petworth.
2012 09 30 - Used by DCist.

2012 07 22 - 0003 - DC - Back Alley Waffles

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:09:06 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

"Back Alley Waffles" / "Waffles and Brew" (street address 1209 10th Street, but facing into Blagden Alley) recently closed over a dispute with Groupon. Some more information is available at DCist (yay first-find hat-tip!) and Washington City Paper. The remaining information below is part of my original caption, drawn from my best guess after reading the flyer & knowing of some other similar stories:

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I'm not 100%, but my best guess is that the owner hadn't capped whatever deal had been issued, resulting in a pretty substantial loss.

These coupon deals can be great for places like recreation or entertainment venues, where you're selling a product that would have been there anyway -- seats in a theater, for example. But for restaurants: you run the risk of selling your product at a net loss, so if that's the case: you're supposed to limit how many of the deal can be sold (that is: cap it). Then the money you lose is limited; it's an investment in hopefully getting new customers.

For a place like this -- a good product but hidden in an alley -- it can be immensely useful at making people aware you exist... as opposed to higher-end restaurants where everyone already knows you exist, knows you're tasty, but will *only* come when there's a special deal. That's how I work with places like Rasika.

But that's really only beneficial if you cap it, reducing your risk. I'm guessing that didn't happen here, leaving the businessowner with no other recourse but to close his business and refuse to honor the deals. I hate to say it of a neighbor and purveyor of tasty fare, but unfortunately with this information I would best place blame on him. Though Groupon could've certainly advised him that he should've done an offer that wouldn't put them under.

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...so many mentions across varying media outlets and I have yet to see one mention of or comment about Marge Simpson's pretzel business. But responding to a couple comments: yes, this place has been a bit rocky for all of its three months: awkward closures during posted business hours & staff that's friendly but seems unsure and confused. But I did eat their waffles the previous weekend and I can testify that they were quite good.

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2012 08 13 - Used by DCist
2012 08 10 - Used by DCist
2012 08 06 - Used by DCist
2012 07 26 - Used by DCist
2012 07 23 - Used by Prince of Petworth

2012 06 05 - 9372-9380,9382-9385,9390-9392 - DC - Venus Transit Sunset

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:41:32 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

The sky above DC during the 2012 Venus Transit. Unfortunately clouds obscured the view of the sun for most of the transit, but at the least I got a bit of a Belt of Venus, instead.

This image is a composite of 16 separate photos.

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2012 06 06 - Used by Prince of Petworth.
2012 06 06 - Used by NASA in their Flickr gallery for the event!

2012 05 31 - 4760-4763 - DC - Conn-N Water Main Break

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:51:54 -0700

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A water main break at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and N Street NW causes traffic havoc throughout the day in the Dupont Circle area.

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2012 06 01 - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 05 31 - 4787 - DC - Conn-N Water Main Break

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:53:28 -0700

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2013 03 12 - 0756-0786d - DC - Comet PANSTARRS

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:10:40 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

Fragments of Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) rain down upon the WWII and Lincoln Memorials, with an unscathed crescent moon looming over.

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2013 03 15 - Used by DCist
2013 03 15 - Used by Prince of Petworth

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This image is photoshopped- DC did not experience a brimstonequester, but I'm going to hope you could have guessed that on your own.

Processing time in Photoshop: about 15-20 minutes. I increased the size of the comet quite extensively & copied it over. I didn't want to merely copy, paste, & scale; I instead reshaped them somewhat, slightly recolored, and manually painted around the edges... hopefully they don't look like mere clones of each other that way.

This base file is stitched from 8 photos, file numbers 0756, 0772, 0773, 0777, 0779, 0783, 0784,and 0786. I'm downright proud I pulled off the original shots considering that at 1.3" exposures & 200mm I was doing this handheld... definitely set a personal record for remaining still.

Other Versions:
(A) Original
(B) Thumbnailed
(C) Supersized
(D) Meteor Shower

2012 11 22 - 5226 - Arlington - DCA from Metro

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:53:45 -0800

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2013 03 01 - Used by DCist.
2012 11 30 - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 11 12 - 1209,1213,1215 - DC - Georgetown Aqueduct Abutment

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:47:15 -0800

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2012 12 07 - Used by Greater Greater Washington
2012 11 28 - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 10 01 - 5329 - DC - Nationals Ballpark

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:50:52 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 2-0, but the Nationals clinched the National East Championship Title thanks to the Atlanta Braves losing 2-1 at the Pittsburgh Pirates. So it was a pretty upbeat loss and perfect for me- my hometeam won the battle and my adopted hometeam won the war.

Meanwhile, Teddy lost. Again. Despite McCain making an appearance to inspire us with hope, only to dash our dreams and aspirations. Again.

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2012 10 03 - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 10 01 - 5478-5486 - DC - Nationals Ballpark

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:52:34 -0700

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2012 09 12 - 0582 - DC - Dupont Circle Metro Station

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:23:00 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

The shot was taken in broad daylight. I'd nearly deleted this in post- when I couldn't achieve any look I was happy with... I threw the blue down to black and really liked the outcome: went from being an almost-delete to one of my better shots of the day.

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2012 09 20 - Used by Prince of Petworth.
2012 09 18 - Used by Famous DC.

2012 07 25 - 6637 - DC - Missing Bernard the Basil Plant

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:07:29 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

Bernard the Basil Plant is missing!

Here's to hoping this kidnapping story doesn't end with the victim being eaten :(
...Then again, I'm Italian ...so maybe that should end with ;)

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2012 08 08 - Linked via Reddit
2012 08 07 - Plant-thieving mass-hysteria nurtured by Titan of Trinidad.
2012 08 06 - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 06 14 - 2908 - DC - Flag Day

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:44:34 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

The (DC) Flag Day event in Dupont Circle, held by Let Us Vote DC.

2012 06 14 - 2909 - DC - Flag Day

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:06:45 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

Dan Silverman (of Prince of Petworth) speaks at the (DC) Flag Day event in Dupont Circle, held by Let Us Vote DC.

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2012 0x xx - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 04 04 - 0402 - Washington DC - Zoo - Early Closure

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:27:18 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

What I'd anticipated being a quiet day at the National Zoo instead turned into a rather raucus affair culminating in its early closure (a very rare event). More info.

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2012 04 05 - Used by Prince of Petworth.

2012 03 11 - 3441 - Washington DC - Skaters in Meridian Hill Park

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:57:27 -0700

thisisbossi posted a photo:

A skateboarder (Donovan) kickflips his board in the drained cascades of Meridian Hill Park / Malcolm X Park. This was one of the first downright glorious days of what would come to be a rather early and perfect spring (later followed by an early & brutal summer).

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2012 09 25 - Third place winner in the DC State Fair photography contest. (YAY!)
2012 09 12 - Added to personal Gallery and copyrighted.
2012 04 01 - A full spread in the April issue of Modern Luxury's DC edition (current issue)
2012 03 13 - Used by Prince of Petworth.
2012 03 12 - Used by DCist.

2012 02 11 - 3598 - Washington DC - 12-O

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:21:20 -0800

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2012 04 25 - Used by Prince of Petworth.
2012 03 01 - Photo of the Day on Borderstan.

2012 01 08 - 4647 - Washington DC - Lincoln Temple UCC

nobody@flickr.com (thisisbossi) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:30:00 -0800

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2012 01 12 - Photo of the Day on Borderstan.
2012 01 10 - Used by Prince of Petworth.
2012 01 10 - Used by DCist.