There are so many people at the Tidal Basin in the mornings because of the cherry blossoms, that you kind of feel overwhelmed. Its hard to get a good spot, unless you get there super early or you decide to go against the crowd and photograph something else. Everybody seemed to be shooting the Jefferson Memorial, but I noticed that the Washington Monument had all this color behind it. So, I quickly turned my camera from the Jefferson to the Monument and found a perfect spot where the cherry blossoms were framing it.

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