Elizabeth Taylor Rising T-Shirt

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I am spooked by the light and dark in this photograph because it gives the effect that Elizabeth Taylor is rising from the dead, with a vengeance. The mural of Liz was made by artists Byron Peck and Ivo Koytchev in 2013. It rises three stories high and is on the side of the Dacha Beer Garden building at 7th and Q Streets, NW, in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC.

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...