At pain of reaching complete burnout on this subject…
- As usual, The Big Picture hosts some excellent galleries:
- Inaugural Preparations features some great, little-seen details. I love these fragmented Obama eyes, plus this image of the Lego capitol. [Update: Reuters features more images of the Lego scene.]
- The inauguration gallery includes images of people watching the show from Sadr City to Mexico City.
- The Newseum hosts hundreds of front pages documenting the events. [Via Marc Pawliger]
- Pranksters in SF have changed Bush St. to Obama St. (I remember hearing after the 2000 election that people had changed “Bush” to “Puppet.”)
- Updates:
- CNN hosts a zoomable version of the satellite image I mentioned yesterday.
- The NYT has added overlay text identifying most of the people in the zoomable photo of the swearing-in. That strikes me as a much more useful application of the technology.
I don’t think I saw this one on the blog:
http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/01/inauguration.html
Imagine the security clearance to a device that looks like this does placed on the stand…
[Very cool; thanks, John. –J.]
Hi John, Has anyone sent you this link yet:
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
Best one I’ve seen yet.
[Very cool, Bill; thanks. –J.]
A number of high resolution, public domain, images of the inauguration can be download from http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html.
I recommend searching stills, using the search term “inauguration,” and limiting the time window to 20 January 2009.
Our military had a large role in managing the inauguration. Military photographers — young enlisted personel — recorded the event with DSLRs, and there are some very good photos, some up to professional journalistic standards, that we can download and print. For example, there is an image of the Obamas dancing at one of the balls, taken with a Nikon D3, that combines first class artistic and technical quality. Another shot, taken with a Nikon D300 and an 18-200 zoom, of Obama speaking, shows how the five panes of bulletproof glass distort the view.
The images include comprehensive metadata including the names of the photographers and descriptions of the event recorded.
[Cool; thanks for the info, James. –J.]
I enjoyed all of these…Maybe it’s just me or does Clarence Thomas appear to be dozing off? (in the link Bill posted)
[I thought he was too angry to sleep. –J.]