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RyanCrierie -> Inauguration 09 (1/21/2009 2:30:36 AM)
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Washington DC Status: TRASHED.
The mall and streets of DC are strewen with trash, and all the grass on the mall is most likely dead, trampled to dust litterally; there were dust clouds.
Metro station entrances, at least at L'Enfant Plaza were full of disposed paper trash, cans, etc.
I'm sure glad I ain't working for the DC Dept of Public Works tomorrow...
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PACKED.
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The Closest I got to the stand was 1.2 miles (washington Monument Area). That's where I took the above photo.
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Maryland National Guardsmen looking bored.
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Bomb Sniffing Dog. These were roving around at all times.
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WW2 Memorial + Reflecting Pool + Lincoln = FILLED
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Inside the reopened American History museum
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More Museum fun
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Taken at around 5:15 PM from 3/4ths of a mile away from the US Capitol with a 250mm telephoto lens with Image Stabilization. For you europeans, that's 1.2 kilometers. Damn, I need a 500mm lens.
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More 250mm zoom lens fun! This was taken at 50mm length, to show the various JUMBOTRON setups on the mall at 5PM, just before I left.
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Trash on the tree planters near L'efant plaza. Imageine a whole street full of stryrofoam containers all discarded.....
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Near the washington Monument
Okay now. This was NOT NOT NOT taken by me. It was posted on Flickr however; and it does illustrate what it was like at 11:00 AM at the L'enfant metro station waiting to get out:
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This one isn't by me, but it's so awesome:
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And they did their job seriously, I could not see a single hobo at all, usually they like to hang around the steam grates of government buildings and the Smithsonian in the winter for heat...
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