One of the judges (based on a quick Googling, I think it’s Clarence Thomas?) right behind Obama is asleep. Which is odd, because this is the first black president, and all, and the judge is a black man.
A few rows behind him, just above the seam and to the left, appears to be Emperor Palpatine.
Not only is there a floating hat in front of Aretha Franklin, but she appears to have eaten the top of someone’s head off. Perhaps to get a better view?
Near the staircase to the left of Obama is a soldier with a shaved head and a pair of those behind-the-head earmuffs and he looks very bizarre to me.
A woman in the top left balcony appears to be taking a picture of the people who took this picture.
There is a guy on the other side of the wall from Leibowitz and about a dozen people down the row, who looks like he’s wearing a yellow sleeping bag. And an Air Force cap.
I found a half-a-guy, and a pair of legs from the knee down.
A couple hugging each other (awwww!)
Several (students?) taking notes.
A guy with a Middle Eastern headdress.
I think I see one of our senators, Bennie Thompson. Maybe not.
John F. Kennedy supposedly didn’t wear a hat at his inauguration, and ushered in the era of men without hats (although Snopes documents that he in fact did wear a hat, its a lead-in, and I’m taking it).
As I look at this really cool photo, I am struck by the butt-ugly hats these guys have on. I mean, really, it’s pretty much the most formal outdoor occasion you’ll ever attend, and you decide to wear a cowboy hat? a baseball cap? a toque?
There’s a guy two seats on sleeping Thomas’ right who appears to be wearing a medieval monk’s cap. In the same wedge behind Obama is a baseball cap and a Greenbay toque. Bush Sr. is apparently wearing an entire lamb.
Seriously. Can you movers-n-shakers of the political elite not go buy a proper hat?
Who didn’t just waste 5-10 mins scanning the tops of the buildings to see if they could see any trained police snipers or anything on the lookout. (I think they’re on top of the domed building towards the top center, and back the picture… These two guys standing all alone up there… :shrug:
That’s just a large format camera. Here’s some information on them. The author of said information occasionally has some interesting views, but his facts usually are pretty good.