We spent last weekend exploring Richmond, VA, our state’s capital! We stayed downtown at the historic Jefferson Hotel (lovely) and explored so many of Richmond’s neighborhoods, restaurants and museums. I realized during our visit that I had only travelled through Richmond in the past – never really had the chance to stop and see what the city really had to offer. I have since decided it is definitely a place I could live! As you can see below, there are so many fantastic areas for photographs and I love that feeling of actually being back in the South (that as you Northern Virginians know we generally just don’t have).
While the middle of November is probably not the best time for a busy photographer to plan a getaway (note to self for next year) it ended up being a perfect little break for me and my family. I actually planned the trip around a visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see the Sally Mann exhibit and was in heaven feeling like I was actually doing something just for me for a change. Lu and I took our time through the show and really examined the glass collodion printed self portraits – getting to see every one of Mann’s beloved imperfections up close! The grand scale images of the Civil War battlefields also really grabbed me as I have been spending so much time in those very fields lately myself.
On our way out of town we breezed through the Science Museum and I was thrilled to see they had a planetarium. Lu has been really interested in constellations at school and we had been talking about the night sky quite often, but hadn’t been able to pick out too many stars in our own back yard. We got to relax in the dark together watching the sky sparkle and move above us, then chuckled and shh’d as we listened to Coco loudly repeat almost all of the constellations names after the narrator would state them…”Cassiopeia??!!!!”
I took way too many photos (of course) but here are some of my favorites from our time together in Richmond. Can you believe how amazing the fall color still is?
