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January 19, 2009

- Shadow in the Air -

Over Thanksgiving, my girlfriend and I took a trip to DC, just for the hell of it.   We had a couple of days off and wanted to be somewhere else for a while.  I’ve got some other pictures from the museums we visited, which I’ll probably post here eventually, but first, I wanted to post these pictures of the Washington Monument.

At first glance, it was just a lucky time of day to be there.  The skies were clear and the sunset was beautiful.  But once we got closer to the monument, I noticed something really strange.

In the sky next to the monument was a line of shadow that seemed to be floating in midair. I’d never seen anything like this before, and I still have no idea what it was. Sure, it could be the shadow of the jet contrail you can see above it, but why do shadows ever hang in the air like that?

Here you can see a sort of west to east panorama, showing that the shadow seemed to be pointing to one of the buildings on the Mall (which was probably the Smithsonian Museum).  I was thinking, hey, maybe the monuments’ shadow points to some secret Templar treasure or Grand Masonic crypt that’s hidden there! But later, as I got further away, I noticed that the shadow was not connected to the monument at all:

Maybe this is an example of how “The pyramid changes the structure of space.”?  Who knows…

But from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, it could definitely be seen as a symbol of the divine masculine, reflected in the pool of the divine feminine below it.  An eternal cosmic porno, all put on display for the viewing pleasure of good ol’ Abe…

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  1. And I’m adding here that these pictures are photoshopped, but only slightly so, in order to make the shadow more apparent. I do have the original untouched jpegs on my computer if anyone is interested in looking at them.

    I don’t have any delusions about this being a way to gain more readers, and I don’t believe this serves any other purpose other than to possibly one day help me figure what the hell this is.

    So please, if anyone is here just to call these fakes, don’t bother. You’re just wasting your time (and the few moments of my time that I would spend deleting your comment).

    Thank you.

    Any ideas as to what exactly this might be, though, are totally welcomed!

    Comment by Ian — January 19, 2009 @ 5:15 pm


  2. I can only imagine there was a low-level layer of haze (smog?) over DC that day, and you’re looking at the shadow of the exhaust trail on the smog.

    None of this scientific speculation dispels the coolness of the images, of course.

    Comment by speedbird — January 20, 2009 @ 4:28 am


  3. Excellent. Thanks again speedbird.

    Looks like you are totally right on this one. I am relieved it’s a more common occurrence than I thought!

    Comment by Ian — January 20, 2009 @ 9:30 am


  4. Either way, these images are beautiful!

    Comment by C8lin — January 21, 2009 @ 4:38 pm


  5. Check this out, more Washington Monument fun:
    http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=116898

    (Forgive the tinfoil hat type ravings, but is that a pyramid of light I see around it?)

    Comment by Ian — January 23, 2009 @ 10:55 am


  6. Apparently, these are crepuscular rays!

    Comment by Ian — November 2, 2011 @ 9:58 pm



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