The Inaugural Address in 1,474 megapixels

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It's like a geeky political version of Where's Waldo?

For a bonus, check out Bush's face.

If I'd gone I would have definitely worn the striped outfit. Maybe even a hat so you could play WW from space!

Several questions:

1. Where are the snipers?

2. What's the point of having 5000 press photographers all taking the same photos? Wouldn't it make more sense to hire 5 and have them take photos for all the news organizations?

1: Either out of sight, or not there. With a density like that, what would a sniper do? Snipers are good for covering open ground, not what probably the most densely crowded area in America. Good screening and lots and lots of manpower on the ground is the only thing that works.

2: Pictures like this. Innovation doesn't happen in a room where 5.000 mediaoutlets try to hash out the photo-policy they want for a given event. Btw. it's probably more like 50 that gets up close. AP and others do exactly what you're suggesting.

And this is Clarence Thomas sleeping at said Inaugural: http://img.skitch.com/20090127-jr8uwqqb5dqyu81u6u81egxt2m.jp...

That's pretty neat. Did anyone else see the doofus sitting several rows behind Obama wearing a Green Bay Packers hat? Geez... It's the presidential inauguration for crying out loud.

You have to love the great American tradition of poor fashion sense; I can imagine what my European friends would be thinking if they saw the crowd in this photo...

If you look at the left, one of the photographers have 2 heads :)

1. Where are the snipers? - look at the big buildings on the horizon. Some of them have people on the roofs.

Justice Clarence Thomas is catching up on some sleep.

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