I recently took advantage of Ritz Camera's fire sale to upgrade from my circa 2003 Kodak to a decently nice DSLR. I got to experiment with it for the first time last weekend at the Hand Made Mart craft fair in Silver Spring, at which Girlfriend was a vendor - she sells map stationary.
Silver Spring is a suburban downtown immediately north of Washington, DC. In many ways it's an "uptown" district for DC. The craft fair centered on an infill development built earlier this decade, but much of downtown Silver Spring is older.
The infill development is centered around a very popular plaza.
The Discovery Channel and its associated empire of cable networks is based here.
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