Saturday, January 24, 2009

Wow Photography

Pan and Zoom with this amazingly detailed wide-shot picture from the inaugaration.

And no, this does not capture 1/100th of it.

Can you find your member of Congress? Your Senator? A perpetually sleeping Supreme Court justice?

How many bassoon players were there? Check out the length of those telephoto lenses! Who the hell let all those people climb on the horse statue? And is it any surprise that George W. Bush looks like a scowling chimp? Can you find Aretha?

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is Newt even there? What is Bush 1 wearing on his head? Why is Axelrod so far back? Plenty of yawns, but not one person picking their nose.

PBurns said...

Newt is there as a former Speaker of the House. The fact that he was a disaster does not county against him at these kinds of things.

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stellaluna said...

I see Aretha, but she appears to have a goatee... and there are a lot of other two-faced people in there as well. El Presidente had better watch his back...!

Pretty amazing image, though.

an American in Copenhagen said...

Unreal! As usual, the expression on Laura's face makes her look like a Stepford Wife.

ArdenwoodPatti said...

More info --

http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/01/pano.html

Anonymous said...

Fascinating, revealing stuff. 41 is wearing a nutria, chimp-faced 43is sitting with his legs closed for once (his balls-out usual pose was always SO...disrespectful), Thomas is in REM sleep, Scalia looks like a bored monk, Roberts looks pained, as if he'd pulled a major boner in front of 2 billion spectators, and there's some gangster-like creep up front in a wheelchair. Notice many on the left of the photo are applauding, while those on the right are not? Hilarious!

Seahorse ;)

Anonymous said...

I've found at least two people that appear twice in the photo.