I held off on joining Instagram for a long time, because I always thought
why do I want a shittier version of Facebook just to share low-res photos one at a time? After all, I have Flickr for real photography, and Facebook and Twitter for social media.
But a year or so ago I gave in and joined (
here I am), and you know what: I like it. Specifically, I like how it functions almost like a visual journal of the interesting things I see on a day-to-day basis. Instagram isn't for the kind of photo essays I put on Flickr. I never copy "real" photos to Instagram. Rather, it's simply a convenient way to snap 1 picture of whatever interesting thing I happen to see on the sidewalk.
So here you go. Selections from my first year on Instagram, starting recently and moving back in time to last year. Mostly from DC, but you'll see other cities too.
Sentinels.
Official color of DC: Flip-house grey.
Parking.
Best apartment wall in DC.
Bus stop.
Coming up.
Streetcard.
Cycletrack.
Old DC streetcar.
Road trip.
Roanoke.
Coming & going.
Turrets & lintels.
Three modes.
Birds.
Partial solar eclipse, barely visible as a chuck missing from the lower right corner of the sun. Best I could do with a cellphone.
Elizabeth.
Ballston by bus.
MARC.
Tysons via metro.
Dupont.
Obama.
Feel the love.
Race?
Traffic.
Secret art. Peer through a hole in a blank wall, and there it is.
Uninvited guest in the house.
Face off.
Rush.
Park(ing) Day.
Video archway.
Cufflinks.
Velocipede.
Sideling Hill.
Wheeling.
Columbus.
Cleveland inside.
Cleveland outside.
Rain.
Cockatiels.
Rowhouses.
Streetcar ahead.
Union Station.
Plaza.
BRT.
Q Street.
Skyline.
The last supper of 14th Street.
Maze.
The Cairo.
From the back seat.
Ornament.
Sad sunflowers.
Opening day on the Silver Line.
+1 for fountains.
Spanish Steps.
Ride into it.
Lazy Saturday.
Rosslyn.
Want a locomotive?
Fauquier County.
+1 for fountains.
Looking west.
Loudoun County.
Hirshhorn Museum.
Parrot and bike.
Lyft.
Lunch.
Civic beauty.
Anacostia.
Home.
Making friends.
Spring.
Suburbiana.
Fields of yellow.
Winston-Salem.
Cherry blossoms.
Market.
Nightmare.
Cheap entertainment.
Maryland.
Grow.
Needs love.
Buds.
Fairfax.
Moscow.
Greenland.
Amsterdam.
Paris.
Community activism.
Tivoli.
Snowball fight.
Traffic control is serious business.
Yarn-bombed.
Waterfront.
Library.
Ride.
Walmart.
Two patterns.
Post office.
Track work.
Metro.
Winter.
Leonardtown.
Plans.
Turn lane.
Mozambique.
National Gallery.
Lobby.
Ephemera.
Monastery.
That's enough, I think. Follow me on
@beyonddc.