Any way you can enhance this photo from DC?

I was in DC over the past week for a business trip. One day in the afternoon after the training session myself and a co-worker went to downtown DC to take some photographs.

The following picture was taken at 4:55 pm on April 4, 2007.
It has been unaltered with the exception of adding a copyright mark.

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Below the copyright mark you will see....something?

I would love to know what this thing is. If you can enhance the image to prove it is a bird, a plane, hell even a speck of dust, PLEASE do so!

I did not notice this object when I took the picture. I only realized this was in the picture AFTER I started showing my pictures with family during Easter today.

For comparison, here are a couple other pictures I took while I was down there:

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The above picture is a plane flying past the Washington Monument. Yes, I was attempting to take the picture of the plane. The photo was taken at 4:56 PM on the same day.


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The above picture is another picture of the Capitol. You can see below my copyright mark a bird. No I did not know the bird was in the picture until after reviewing this photo. The photo was taken at 6:27 PM on the same day, from a different angle.


Once again, I would absolutely LOVE a reasonable explanation for this object.

A little more info on the original photo:
180 dpi
2592x1944 pixels
bit depth 24
Shutter Speed 1/202 sec.
Lens Aperture F/4
Focal Length 59 mm
Exposure Time 1/200 sec.

Taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS

[edit on 8-4-2007 by phantomm]

A few shots that I tried to enhance from the original photo:



Detect Edges:



Detect Horizontal Edges:

Actually, Ken, that's a pretty good enhancement in your second post.

Blunt end with a small sharp protrusion to the left. Longer swept protrusion to the right. Possible small protrusion in the middle of the bottom edge.

All the hallmarks of a bird flying to left, IMHO.

[edit on 4/8/2007 by eaglewingz]

It could be because I'm at work (yay procrastination!) but I can't see the pictures, neither the links or the embedded images in the other post.

it appears to have disappeared.... *gasp*

Yep... those links are dead Can you repost them?

Apparently the OP has removed the images from their Photobucket account ... wonder why?

With that being case, it seems there's nothing more to discuss, research or debate here.


I guess the only thing to do at this point is ...


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