There are surveillance cameras as utilitarian in appearance as the duty they perform. Then there are those that also serve as an aesthetic enhancement. These two surveillance cameras, captured by National Press Club photographer Noel St. John hanging gracefully from the decorative lanterns around the U.S. Capitol, do double duty. A growing variety of surveillance cameras may be observed — or not — in and around Georgetown as more businesses and residents participate in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s expanded surveillance camera rebate program. The program provides grants of up to $750 for businesses or large property owners and up to $500 for residents toward the purchase of cameras, with a maximum of $200 per camera. Style, a matter of taste, is left up to the buyer.
