Though I’ve lived in Virginia for seven years and I love to photograph flowers, I had never been to Washington DC’s Cherry Blossom Festival. I fixed that on Sunday. Since then, I’ve been working to transfer, organize and edit my 860 photos. Then my primary computer crashed in a fiery blaze, and will require repairs. But I could pull off some of the work and my favorites are below. The tidal basin in DC is lined with 2000 cherry trees, and they were all at their absolute peak Sunday. It was one of the most beautiful days I’ve ever enjoyed. It was packed with people, which I usually hate but Sunday they didn’t matter.

Check out full size images as well as several enormous panoramas here.

Jefferson Memorial & Cherry Blossoms. Combination of two images with focus stacking.

The Washington Monument & Cherry Blossoms.

Jefferson Memorial & Cherry Blossoms

Flowers at the George Mason Memorial

The Washington Monument & Cherry Blossoms