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This photograph shows a small section of the ceiling of The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, which connects the National Portrait Gallery with the Smithsonian American Art Museum in downtown Washington, DC. The two museums and courtyard form what is now called the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.

The Courtyard's glass canopy, designed by architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, is a wavy glass and steel structure that appears to float over the courtyard, letting in natural light but protecting visitors from the elements. The double–glazed glass panels are set in a grid supported by eight aluminum–clad columns located around the perimeter of the courtyard.

I guess I've had an off-and-on love affair with photography my whole life. My father was always taking pictures and movies when I was a kid growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1950s-60s, and he gave me my own Kodak Brownie camera when I was around 6 years old. I remember using it to take pictures of family events and a trip to Washington DC, back in 1958. I still have some of the pictures ....... somewhere. Photography moved to the back burner during high school, college, and law school, but I picked it up again after I graduated law school in 1979, moved to Washington DC, and began my legal career with the federal government. Being alone in a new city, I would take my camera wherever I went, and I was soon making my own prints in...