Each of the four of us who run this site chose our five favorite photos of 2025.
Miki Jourdan
2025 was a dark year in many ways, especially in the Nation’s Capital. That is why I keep returning to photos that show what a diverse and joyful place the District is.
H Street Festival:
Fiesta DC:
World Pride 2025:
Fiesta Asia:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival:
Rob Klug
Memorial Bridge after the Fourth of July fireworks
The Malcolm X Drum Circle
Seagulls on the Georgetown waterfront
Angela N.
A sunset straight out of mordor:
Goofy new pandas at the zoo!
Colorful autumn leaves:
No Kings, San Francisco:
4th of July. Here’s to a wonderful semiquincentennial in 2026!
Victoria Pickering
The funeral cortege of Jimmy Carter, as it proceeded from the Navy Memorial to the Capitol:
On the morning of Inauguration Day, this limousine contained both President Biden and President-elect Trump as it went toward the Capitol for the transfer of power:
Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery, where The Old Guard honors our country’s fallen heroes by placing an American flag at each of the 260,000 headstones for Memorial Day:
A huge crowd on the grounds of the Washington Monument at the Hands Off rally in April:
A last glimpse of the East Wing of the White House while it was being demolished:
