Arlington

    Ok, everyone's seen this photo, because everyone has taken this photo...

 Maybe this one is different enough that not everyone has seen it?

"And every time I hear twenty-one guns,
I know they brought another hero home to us." - Trace Adkins, "Arlington"

These two photographs are of Arlington National Cemetery.  These particular graves are mostly from the Korean war, though some of them are from World War II.  The graves in the background are from many other conflicts. 

I took these photos February 12, 2012.  It was cold and blustery, but I walked from the Arlington stop on the Blue Line across the Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, and then down the Mall to the Smithsonian metro stop. Exposure data is identical, and both are taken from the same position.

Nikon D7000 - 105mm, f 5.6, 1/2500, ISO 100. On tripod.  Post-processing Nikon Capture NX2.