Following up on my "10 Things to Love about DC," I'm also trying to grab some photographic "sketches" of the city in transition. Washington is evolving at a tremendous pace - you could almost imagine a space port to the east in 50 years. Anyway, I like this photo captured today for a bunch of reasons:

First, its captures a city in transition (a gaping construction hole for a new Marriott property hemmed by vacant building, evident next victims. The crane soaring past the top frame provides a sense of enormous scale).

Second, it was taken by a construction worker who, in seeing me struggle to get the phone camera above the tall safety fence asked, "Hey what are you trying to take a picture of?" and when I told him he said, "Hand it over, let me try.")

Third, i think he did a magnificent job with the geometry: a sloping false horizon with the buildings in the background leaning at an impossible opposition. Serendipity!