The red jacket (above) really catches your eye on this one submitted by rossleetabak.
Another great crowd shot below from ewilfong.
Thanks to everyone who sent in photos or tagged them in flickr or joined the PoPville flickr pool which is still open to join if you’d like. I’m only sorry I wasn’t able to pick more entries, there were so many great ones. I’ll pick a winner tomorrow. More entries after the jump. (more…)
photo by Jim Hamann
Wow, this one is really powerful. It was taken by “quigley brown” who wrote:
“This woman’s emotions spilled as she listened to Aretha Franklin sing ‘My Country Tis Of Thee.’ “
Above is a great crowd shot from clintonbphotography.
Below is an insane souvenir from Jess J.
Join the PoPville flickr pool here. You can add any cool photos you got of the snow to the PoPville flicr pool. More inauguration pics after the jump. (more…)
The one above from Quigley Brown cracked me up.
Below is a great sunrise shot from jehylton.
Below is a super cool shot from julia.m.
There are so many good entries. Sadly, I can’t take anymore entries. Winner announced Friday. So help me out with the one you like best. And don’t forget you can always join the PoPville Photo pool on flickr and contribute photos of the beautiful life. More after the jump. (more…)
Thanks to all who sent in photos and tagged photos in fickr. Due to the many entries I can only enter one photo per person (which is extremely difficult to do!).It was a phenomenal turn out and I’m afraid I can no longer accept entries. Of course you can still join the new flickr pool I created called PoPville photos. In the pool you can enter up to 3 photos a day capturing the beautiful life from any of our neighborhoods. So please feel free to add photos whenever you’d like!
Above is a photo from “The Hay Say”.
Below is an entry from Liz who writes: “Here’s a shot of two little girls, one from Vermont and the other from Ottawa, who trekked to DC for the big day.”
Below is a great shot of the crowds from Lauren who writes: “They were taken by my partner from the top of the jumbotron tower between 14th and 15th on the Mall where I was working production.”
I’m gonna need some help so let me know in the comments which one(s) you like the best. I still have more entries going up next week but I’d like to announce a winner and some honorable mentions next Friday. More entries after the jump. (more…)
This photo was actually submitted for the contest by AngryParakeet but I had meant to ask if anyone used the bike valet? From the photo it looks like it was a great success. But I’m wondering how long did it take to retrieve your bikes? Anyone use this option?
Wow, this one blew me away. It’s super cool how it focuses on one and blurs out the crowd. It was submitted by Chris S.
Ed. Note: While most folks have tagged their photos with “popobamaweekcontest” in flickr I just wanted to let folks know that I’ve created a PoPville flickr pool here. So please join up and feel free to submit photos of the beautiful life whenever you’d like.
photo by rossleetabak
Thanks to a reader for sending. It seems from reading about your experiences that here’s a good way to voice your frustrations over the inauguration ticket fiasco.
Sen. Feinstein Calls for Ticket Investigation and Asks Participants for Information.
Washington, DC—U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, today issued the following statement in response to reports of incidents which prevented a large number of ticketholders from reaching their designated areas at the 56th Presidential Inaugural Ceremony:
Following is Senator Feinstein’s statement: Continues after the jump. (more…)
This comes from “arisenders”. I really love how the trees look in this photo surrounded by huge crowds.
I’ve gotten tons of good entries so far and am still accepting more through Friday. You can email them to me directly or tag them in flickr with popobamaweekcontest. Congrats “arisenders” on this great shot. Another cool shot by arisenders after the jump. (more…)
“I’m a local blogger who just commented on your blog about having purple tickets and not getting in. Attached is a picture of the narrow part of the 395 tunnel, where we and thousands of others who didn’t get in were stuck for hours. We were there over 3.5 hours.
Check out the crowd in the satellite photos at 1st and C and you can see how dense the group (almost all with tickets) who didn’t get in through the Purple Gate was: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/
Also attached is a photo from the Giant at Columbia Heights.. $60 for parking!!!”
