DC Harbor Patrol

Established in 1861, the MPDC Harbor Patrol is a critical, but largely unknown, part of the Metropolitan Police Department. The Harbor Patrol polices all of the rivers, inlets, and waterways that surround the nation's capital. The 20-member unit encounters the same types of incidents that occur on DC streets including disorderly conduct, loud music, domestic violence, high-speed chases, and robbery suspects.

Shot during my Labor Day / Sunday, 6 September 2009 photo walk through Georgetown click the image to view my newly launched DC Harbor Patrol album which is also found in my MPDC 2009 album.

11 September 2009 Friday's Photo of the Week

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Washington Harbour / Georgetown, K Street, NW, WDC

Labor Day Sunday, 6 September 2009

2009 Fridays' Photos of the Week

Yigal Ozeri's "Desire for Anima" Opens TONIGHT at Mke Weiss Gallery in NYC

Click image to read Mike Weiss Gallery email/press release dated Wednesday, 9 September 2009 regarding Yigal Ozeri's DESIRE FOR ANIMA installation at the Mike Weiss Gallery in NYC.

Virginia Martinsen's "A Face on Mars" Opens TONIGHT at ATM Gallery in NYC

Click above image to read Bill Brady / ATM Gallery press release regarding Virginia Martinsen's A FACE ON MARS installation at ATM Gallery.

Berlin's Nicolaus Schmidt "God Dancing/Spiders Flipping" Exhibit Opening at NYU's Deutsches Haus - Tuesday, 15 September 2009

In spring 2008, the Berlin artist Nicolaus Schmidt portrayed a typical part of Berlin nightlife culture with his Gayhane portraits. In his second art show at Deutsches Haus, "God Dancing/Spiders Flipping" the artist tells about a world-wide known youth and street culture phenomenon with his new N.Y.B.P. (New York Breakdancers Project) series - a long term cooperation with local New York City breakdancers. The artist prints his large sized photographs by himself on Hahnemühle* fine art paper.

Click poster to read the Deutsches Haus Newsletter regarding the exhibit with details pertaining to the Tuesday, 15 September 2009 Opening Reception.

Visit Berlin artist Nicolaus Schmidt website to learn more about his work. And here is Nicolaus Schmidt at Wikipedia.

10th Annual National Press Club Members Photo Show Runs Until 30 September 2009

At the invitation of photojournalist Nancy Shia who I've known since the fall of 2000 as a result of my then association with DC Indymedia I attended the Opening Reception for the 10th Annual National Press Club Photography Exhibit on Friday evening, 4 September 2009.

Shia's display featured four (4) images from the night of 12 October 2008 when as an Adams Morgan Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and in the process of documenting night activities in Adam Morgan she, too, was arrested.

Located in the lobby of the NPC Library the exhibit will be on display until Wednesday, 30 September 2009 on the 13th floor of the National Press Club Building at 529 14th Street in NW Washington DC.

Here is the press release regarding the event.

Click the image view my National Press Club Memmbers 10th Annual Photography Exhibit Opening Reception photo album.