No photo included with this post, just a cool story...

I stopped by the Jefferson Memorial on the way home from a late night at the office the other day to take some pictures (all my Jefferson pics we junk, so I didn't post them).  This was the same night I took the Washington night picture from across the river.  There was a couple at the Jefferson Memorial taking pictures of each other with a little point-and-shoot digital camera.  They asked me if I could take one of them together.  I happily did so, but their little digicam wasn't up to the task.  The pictures were worthless.  So, I offered to take a picture with my XTi and email it to them.  I ended up taking a couple without the flash which didn't turn out so well (I'm trying to avoid the flash until I get a bit more feel for the regular exposure settings).  I finally tried a shot with the flash and it was reasonably good... good enough to print, but probably not good enough to sign my name to if it came down to it. ;)

I emailed them a link to it and got a reply back a little later.  It turns out that as soon as I had finished my photos of them, took a few more of the memorial (or is the Jefferson a monument?), the guy had proposed to the girl!  So, she was thrilled that they got a good picture of them that night...  kind of a lasting memory.  She's assured me that my picture will be in their album.

Pretty cool, eh?  It's nice to know that a simple effort to help someone out sometimes has much better results than anticipated. :)  Good luck you crazy kids!