THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL POST.
THIS IS ONLY POSTED TO SEE A DEMONSTRATION OF SOME IMPRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY.

This is a photo of the inauguration taken with a 1,474 megapixel camera. You can zoom in (by rolling your mouse wheel) on every face in this photo.

Enjoy:

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

Now that was cool. Almost acted like google earth

Up until now I thought that our Nikon D-80 was a pretty good camera...

I read about that on Space.com Very interesting technology.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/090202-gigapan-mars-PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER..html

excellent.

at the nearest lamppost there's a man - closest man standing - to the lamppost.

what's the tan thing on his head?

Almost looks like someone was airbrushed out of the picture? I thought it may have been a bird but zoom up close and it looks like the top of a hat.

I prefer the fact that Justice Clarence Thomas is asleep, and so is the fellow a few rows behind him. Look for the Supreme Court Justices, and then look for the guy behind him a ways. The one with the optical illusion of two sets of eyes, both sets of which are closed.

Take the site out of fullscreen mode and scroll down:
"...It's made up of 220 images..."
Photoshop, and some other software available make it possible to stitch together multiple exposures like this, although we'll see cameras capable of this with one exposure eventually.

The disembodied hand of an alien (space type alien)...

Scan the rooftops.