Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

The willow is too close to the house.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

So many bastards, so little time.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

White supremacy is terrorism.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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Thirty years ago my wife became a US citizen, I promised that afterwards we would see her new nation’s capitol city.  A few months later we flew to Washington and spent 5 days there.  We saw the Capitol, the White House (including the tour), the Archives, and many other sites.  It was my 4th trip to DC and we even hit a few places that I’d not seen (the Zoo).

With today’s Inaugural, I thought I’d revisit some of the photos.  These were all shot with Canon Sure Shot Ace on 35mm film and scanned with a 35mm film/slide scanner.  All photo were reprocessed from the RAW scanned image with either Topaz Labs DeNoise AI or Sharpen AI to reduce noise and sharpen the photos.

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Madame, with the east front of the Capitol behind her.

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View of the Capitol dome from the Rotunda.

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The Old Supreme Court Chamber in the original portion of the Capitol.   The first telegraph message was sent from this room.

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Madame and I on the terrace on the West Front of the Capitol, one of the nice things about the Sure Shot Ace was that it had an IR remote control so you could take selfies.

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The mall and the Capitol from the Washington Monument, this is the only photo where I’ve replaced the sky.

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The White House from the Washington Monument.

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The White House from the Ellipse.

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Hanging out on the White House driveway.

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    Amir Khalid

    That photo of the White House driveway — will the general public ever be allowed so close to the building again?

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    Mary G

    Such innocent times, not a single National Guard member in sight. Madame is an adorable new citizen with a young Bill, beautiful photos perfect for today.

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    Dronesclubreject

    Honestly, as someone who also became an American as an adult, the first photo made my day. May I simply add, tote bag FTW.

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    cope

    What sweet, innocent pictures.  Thanks.  I’ve been hanging out in the past myself lately scanning slides, negatives and prints from back in the day.  Great memories.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Raven: LA Convention Center, East Hall, so a group of folk from my office(a few blocks north) joined us for the occasion.

    @Aleta: Thanks.  Even with the limitations from the camera I was able make them work.

    @Wag: That shot turned out really well, I had to reduce the light coming in the windows.  I’d bracket the shot now.

    @cope: I got a 35mm film/slide scanner about 7 years ago and archived all my shots to JPG, I’ve rescanned some of them(including these) to DNG wrapped TIF.  I also have an Epson flatbed for 120 film size.

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    cope

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I just got the Epson Perfection V600.  It comes with Silverfast 8 software that tweaks everything before the scan.  It does a great job on dust and scratches.  I am a rank beginner at figuring it all out, though.  I’ve even got glass plate negatives my grandfather took as an occupying soldier in Germany after WW I.  The Epson will handle those as well when I feel more confident.  Baby steps…

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @SkyBluePink: I thought of using these  photos for today two weeks ago during the insurrection at the Capitol.

    @cope: I got Silverfast with my film/slide scanner, the Epson came with their own software.  I wasn’t all that happy with it(it’s the lite version) and I use VueScan and I’m pretty happy with it, though the interface won’t win any awards.

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