Worldview: Washington D.C. daily life

For this installment of Worldview: Daily Life, we focus on Washington D.C. 

From American flags flying around the Washington Monument, to a secret service police officer standing guard at the White House, our photographers capture Washington's everyday life.

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Washington Daily Life

The Jefferson Memorial is seen at sunset, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington Daily Life

In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, photo, American flags fly around the Washington Monument in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Capitol Hill Daily Life

A Capitol Hill staffer looks down at papers while on a cell phone while walking inside the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Washington Daily Life

Brothers Jessie, 10, right, and Caleb Martin, 8, left, of Newport News, Va., look at the view of the National Mall from the Lincoln Memorial in the early morning hours in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Washington Daily Life

Visitors to the Georgetown Waterfront relax along the banks of the Potomac River, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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AP10ThingsToSee - A lone boater skims across the surface of the Potomac River at sunset in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

APTOPIX Washington Daily Life

Jocelyn Cox of Chevy Chase, Md., admires a large weaving meant to depict rays of light entitled Plexus A1 by artist Gabriel Dawe, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, at the newly reopened Renwick Gallery in Washington. It is a visual representation of the full spectrum of natural light, a harnessing of a prismatic view of sunshine that has been confined within the four walls of a gallery space. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Washington Daily Life

Visitors to the National Mall walk around the base of the Washington Monument, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Washington Daily Life

A woman walks past the fountain in the courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Washington Daily Life

A rower glides through the light mist clinging to the surface of the Potomac River under the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Washington early Sunday morning, Sept. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Washington Daily Life

A uniformed Secret Service police officer stands guard on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015, a few hours after President Barack Obama left for Paris to meet with other world leaders at the climate talks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Washington Daily Life

Washington is seen above from Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, on approach to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, May 8, 2015. Obama traveled to Watertown, South Dakota to deliver the commencement address at Lake Area Technical Institute, where he will promote his proposal to offer two years of free community college to qualified students. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Daily Life

An iris japonica flower is seen in the Asian Collection at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Wasington Daily Life

Miniature Mediterranean donkeys play in their enclosure in the Kids’ Farm at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, Saturday, March 28, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Washington Daily Life

Workers use a cherry picker to lift them closer to top of Renwick Gallery in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. A major renovation of the Renwick Gallery is currently underway and the building is closed to the public. The project includes completely renewed infrastructure, enhanced historic features and other upgrades that will make the National Historic Landmark building a 21st-century destination attraction. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Daily Life

Airplane contrails are reflected in a building as they cross the early morning sky above Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

APTOPIX Washington Daily Life

A solitary rower skims across the Potomac River past the Lincoln Memorial and under the Memorial Bridge at sunrise in Washington, Friday, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Washington Daily Life

A woman who declined to be identified feeds a seagull on a warm afternoon in front of the Capitol Building on the National Mall in Washington, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Washington Daily Life

A rower pulls through the fog on the Potomac River near the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington early Sunday morning, Sept, 21, 2014. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Washington Daily Life

Kofi Dennis, Wolf Trap's Master Teaching Artist, performs alongside with students from Garrison elementary school, during an art workshop sponsored by Garrison's Parent Teacher Organization, at the Watha T. Daniels/Shaw Library, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 in Washington. Dennis, who hails from Ghana, showed parents how to adapt songs, rituals, and activities from other cultures into their family's daily routine. Participants take an imaginary journey to explore movements, sounds, and instruments of different West African traditions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Daily Life

The United State Capitol is seen lit by the setting sun, with a reflection in the nearly empty reflecting pool, on Capitol Hill, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington Daily Life

Members of the Ohio State University Marching Band pose for a group photograph under the Ohio Clock during their tour of the US Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Daily Life

Nicole Hadfield of San Antonio, Texas, helps her two sons Peter, 2, center, and Koven, 4, left, give money to Stephan Greggov of Bulgaria, as he plays the accordion along Constitution Avenue, Monday, April 27, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

APTOPIX Washington Daily Life

Musicians and dancers from Mariachi Huenachi in Yakima, Wash., and Chicas Reinas in Ferndale, Wash., perform in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Olympia, Wash., as part of Latino Legislative Day at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Subway Shutdown

A rider holds on as a Metro train arrives in the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station Tuesday, March 15, 2016 in Washington. The head of the rail system that serves the nation's capital and its Virginia and Maryland suburbs says the system will shut down for a full day after a fire near one of the system's tunnels. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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A U.S. flag is draped on the side of the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, where the building was attacked on September 11th in 2001, on the 14th anniversary of the attack. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

APTOPIX Washington Daily Life

Jackson Eagleton, 5, covers his eyes as he puts his face in a fountain at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, Sept. 2, 2015. Jackson and his younger brother were sad that the pools in the area are beginning to close for the season, "Georgetown Park was the last resort for water," says their father Jonathan Eagleton. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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