Omnipresent advertising

I haven't had much luck getting up early to go take sunrise pictures, lately.  But I did manage once, a week ago, and took this picture on the way to where I was going (thinking about it, I should have come back here afterwards to take a shot of this with my good camera).

Anyway, I don't really know what's going on here.  It kind of looks like a building is under construction, and the owner allowed it to be turned into an ad in the meanwhile.

The one thing I wish about this is that it would have been an ad for a cube (I used one of those for my main server for a while, until something in it died.  Then I replaced it with a tiny linux box from system76).  That would have rocked.

Shot, and a miss

Went down to the Mall, this morning, to try to take some shots of the sunrise.  My plan was to go to the West edge of the WWII Memorial, and take advantage of the water, there.  Well, it was a morning of disappointments.

First, I got there about ten minutes later than I'd intended, and for a sunrise, that's a huge miss.  I didn't miss the sunrise, but I did miss some of the predawn light.  Second, the water in the WWII Memorial was drained (for winter, I assume).  Third, they were doing construction on that edge of the memorial, so there was no way to set up anywhere close to where I wanted to be (not that that mattered much, when there was no water, but it was a bit insulting to be denied quite so emphatically).

I ended up at the other end of the Reflecting Pool, and took a few.  Nothing I was thrilled with, but some decent shots.  Now to see if it's likely to be clear tomorrow morning (if what I saw last night is any indication, the answer is no :( ).