The Capitol

"The problem with classical architecture is that it's inimitably photographable," a friend sighed across National Statuary Hall from its whisper spot.

Between the two of us architectural historians, so many pictures had been taken on our tour that we could have likely pieced the US Capitol together with photogrammetry. However, out of the dozens and dozens that I took, only four or five were worth keeping. Those four or five were very definite keepers, though. I wish certain views like Latrobe's corn columns in the senate vestibule would have been editable but there were others that surprised me in review. The plaster model of Luigi Persico's "War" inside the East Front extension was one of those unexpected jaw-droppers. Classical architecture might be inimitable but it is certainly worth trying to photograph.