Check out this inaguration pic.

[Sebastian Doyle]

Google Maps could learn a thing or two about zooming in from these guys. Not even "Street Level" comes close!

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

[The Gunslinger]

1. That is amazing.

[babylonsister]

2. That is AWESOME! And that's what 1.8 (give or take) million

people look like! :D

[Political Tiger]

3. Very cool! n/t

[Sydnie]

4. WOW!!!

How did you find this? This is spectacular!

[Botany]

16. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?

:hi:

Bush, Cheney, and Scalia look pissed off :rofl:

and good old C. Thomas is sleeping

awesome picture

[Sydnie]

21. Keep looking around

lots of faces you wil recognize in that photo.

:loveya:

[Wapsie B]

5. Damn are you sure this isn't from a military spy satellite?

That is amazing!

[MercutioATC]

6. Well, it's not a satellite or aerial photo...

...but it IS a great shot!

[Drunken Irishman]

8. It's probably similar to the photo CNN created.

A bunch of images overlapped to create a large pano you can zoom in and out of, at least that's what it looks like to me.

[MercutioATC]

11. That's my bet.

There's no way they got that level of detail with that field of view in one shot.

[FatDave]

35. They did a great job, but there's a few places you can see the stitching

Look at the guy in sunglasses two rows back from Clarence Thomas.

And on the walkway to the left of the VIP section, there's a dude with a goatee and flat cap who appears to be in two places at once.

[question everything]

58. Looks to me like a hand is slapped over his face

Not sure where the V.P. section is..

[psychopomp]

38. It's 220 photos, actually

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address

Wow.

I covered my first inauguration and what an inauguration it was.

Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States in a ceremony on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

Before Tuesday, I had photographed five presidents and covered big events including the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and concerts like Live 8 and Live Earth.

But this one was the biggest.

It deserved a big photo.

I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama’s inaugural address. To do so, I clamped a Gigapan Imager to the railing on the north media platform about six feet from my photo position. The Gigapan is a robotic camera mount that allows me to take multiple images and stitch them together, creating a massive image file.

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Laura Bush actually looks happy.

Bush and Cheney do not.

The Bush twins look bored.

Hillary looks happy, Bill looks like he's thinking of somewhere else.

Jimmy Carter looks happy, too.

Michelle looks proud. You can tell she has so much respect for Pres. Obama.

Just my take. I was smiling through the whole thing. :D

[JuniperLea]

15. I want some of what Laura is having:)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river... la la la...

[KittyWampus]

28. I think the twins look like they are somewhat sad.

[Cha]

9. It's a beautiful sight!

Thanks all you hard working peeps who made it there!:patriot::fistbump::patriot::party:

[TTUBatfan2008]

10. I zoomed in...

to see Clarence Thomas snoring, Scalia looking like a penis with a condom on it, the Clintons having to sit next to the elder Bushes, and a whole host of famous people all freezing their tails off. LOL.

[bigwillq]

12. That's freaking awesome!

:bounce:

[JuniperLea]

13. Check out Chimpy's smirk!!

And what is that in his hands? *GASP* Is that a... BWOP BWOP BWEEEEEEEE... a BLACKBERRY?

[crispini]

18. It's too big for a Blackberry! It looks like a video game to me!

What IS it, I'm sure someone will recognize it.

Edit -- ah no, zoom in more and you'll see whatever it is, is not in his hands. Something shiny behind his hands, which look like he's applauding or something.

[KittyWampus]

30. it's his upright thumb in a black glove in front of a glass water carafe

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. Well, it appears to be a clear liquid

but that don't mean it's water. I don't know when the Chimp started drinking, but he was clearly shitfaced when he got back to Texas. :silly:

[xxqqqzme]

61. dimson has his pissed off pursed lip thing goin'.

He made that face frequently during his final press conference.

I was scanning the press section trying to recognize faces.

Ehat a fun thing to look through - WTF is limpballs doing that close to Obama? right behind darth?

[hlthe2b]

14. Oh, Lord... zoom in on Pres. Obama and you see

tubby Scalia directly behind in his cap and Clarence Thomas (typically) asleep. :eyes:

[Sequoia]

17. Beautiful. Thanks.

[crispini]

19. Hey, there's Al Gore!

This is fun.

[Botany]

22. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?

please don't tell the others



Cheney close up

both bush & Cheney look real pisssed off :rofl:

[crispini]

23. Heya cuddles

:loveya: :hi:

[Botany]

25. Texas is turning blue?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8130811#8130838

you done did good!

you need a treat

[crispini]

36. As usual, you never fail to

please. :evilgrin:

We've put a lot of work in down here. :D

[Froward69]

20. did ya see ol newt?

what an inconsiderate asshole.

[Ron Green]

24. Ithzak Perlman and Yo Yo Ma are takin' pitchers.

Their performance was my favorite part of the whole thing.

[question everything]

49. Did you hear that they "play synced it?"

That it was actually a recorded music? So declared Blitzer..

[Ron Green]

59. Yeah, I just heard the NPR story on that last night. At first I was a little disappointed,

but then I thought about the cold and wind up on that stand, and realized it would have been a rough performance at best. So they just pantomimed what they had recorded two days before; no big deal, really. It was a great rendition.

[question everything]

60. Agree. And Perlman, at least, is not so young anymore

and not that healthy.

It still hard for me to imagine all these people sitting or standing for at least an hour at that cold, most without warm hats and gloves and scarves.

[xxqqqzme]

63. I was wonderig about that during the

performance - how do they get that sound from those instruments in the cold & wind? I played a cello at one time and know wooden instruments go flat/sharp at the least temp/moisture change. Just moving outside from inside should have made those instruments out of tune.

No big deal since it was their recording.

[tishaLA]

26. The top of Warren's ugly head is cut off

It's a mitzvah! He's right in front of The Queen.

[pengillian101]

27. Wow - thanks for posting that. n/t

[Aviation Pro]

29. Holy freaking Moley.....

...will you look at the murderer's row of criminals. I tell you, President Obama would have served us well to have a three hour speech to induce hypothermia in Two Shoes and Shitstain.

[DURHAM D]

31. Someone has some 'plainin to do - What is Newt Gingrich doing on the stage?

Also, there is either a ghost behind Rosalyn Carter or a man with two heads.

[NYC_SKP]

32. Zoom in on GW. Big sourpuss sitting on a padded throne.

Bill, Hill, Michelle and the girls on standard folding metal chairs.

[dbonds]

34. Who is the guy to cheney's left in the VIP chair?

The left from Cheney's perspective. Only Biden, Obama, Bush, Di-Fi and this person have the VIP chairs.

[FatDave]

37. Well, they thought he was New York theatre critic Mort Guffman.

That's why they gave his such a good seat. It turned out he was just some guy in town visiting relatives though.

[dbonds]

40. That would be an extroidinary seat even for Mort Guffman.

Sitting in one of 5 padded chairs and in front of the supremes.

[FatDave]

42. Was that maybe Obama's seat?

And they have seat fillers like at the Oscars? :shrug:

[Princess Turandot]

39. Nice one! Actually, Google Earth has had a Gigapan layer for at least 18 months now...

Layers> Gallery> Gigapan

Added: Cheney looks like he's auditioning for a role in Godfather IV.

[question everything]

41. WOW! Who is sitting in front of Roberts?

and who is the black man next to Lynn Cheney?



I admit, took me a while to get my orientation once I started to zoom in. Was not sure about that tower in front and then I just followed the directions where people were looking.

And who took control of my computer? When I wanted to find out more about this site, and deleted the URL except the main name

http://gigapan.org/

Without me touching the mouse, my screen zoomed into... well, try it.

[FatDave]

43. Secret service maybe?

And what's going on with the blue blanket?

[madamesilverspurs]

44. Impressive.

I just went to the right, way into the crowds, zoomed in on a line of sailors in the aisle, and could read the letters on their armbands. Wild.

[demokatgurrl]

45. That is just fucking AMAZING!

Thank you!! I could look at it for hours. Scanning, looking at faces....And zooming WAY in on Obama.

[proud patriot]

46. COOL

:)

[phusion]

47. Steven Spielberg got a great seat...

Just a few seats behind the President.

[Left 0f Center]

48. allsome

[tridim]

50. It's the Secret Service version of Where's Waldo?

Cool pic!

[Sebastian Doyle]

54. What would they call that?

"Where's Agent Mike?" :evilgrin:

[tridim]

51. Try zooming in all the way and scrolling over the crowd from front to back.

I gasped when I hit the barrier at the pool.

2 million is a LOT of people. WOW!

[AsahinaKimi]

52. Thats pretty cool..

I thought George Bush was playing a video game as well..

[rateyes]

53. Yeah, but...

where's Waldo? :shrug:

[jillan]

55. wow! I have never seen anything like that before.

You can see everyone's faces.

[OneBlueSky]

56. wow . . . this is like a real life "Where's Waldo" . . .

you can actually zoom right in on individual faces . . .Bush looks like he's trying to figure out his Blackberry, Cheney looks dead, Scalia's sleeping, and Obama is bringing about change . . . love it! . . .

so who's gonna be the first to find Aretha? . . .:hi:

on edit: okay, I started counting . . . one, two, three, four (this is gonna take awhile) five, six, seven . . . (that's a LOT of people) eight, nine, ten . . . one hundred forty six, one hundred forty seven (whew) six hundred three, six hundred four . . .

gotta rest . . . I'll finish tomorrow . . . :freak:

[EraOfResponsibility]

57. Where's Beyonce and Jay-Z they were there but I can't find them

[asdjrocky]

62. Man, this knocks me out of my seat.

Thanks for posting.