Sunday
January 18
Washington, D.C.
Spent today going over plans with the bosses and photographers and planning the shots we need. They have a map set up in a conference room with tiny flags with our names on them showing our various positions throughout the day, like troop movements. My spot for the swearing-in is on the Capital balustrade, which is a balcony on the west front of the building behind and above the podium. The view we’ll get from there looks straight out to the Mall, the Washington Monument and way off in the distance the Lincoln Memorial. So it could be very spectacular with the crowds of people. Rode over to the capital with Paul, one of the Washington photographers who had his truck to take over large boxes of equipment. I took my tripod and big lens to leave on the balustrade. Paul assured me it’s a pretty safe area, you need several passes to get into the grounds, then a few feet away from my tripod is a secret service agent with a large machine gun posted 24 hours a day. I tested several lenses to see the type of pictures I’ll get. Then rushed off to photograph a man for a Swiss magazine who are doing a story on Geneva residents who are attending the inauguration. The man turns out to be an American who is a big fundraiser for the Democratic party and Americans abroad. Tim, Emmanuel, Jewel and myself are staying in an apartment that AFP rented for 3 days, turns out it is the apartment of an AFP economics reporter who must have fled Washington with his family for the week. We got our stuff over to the apartment and settled in.
January 18
Washington, D.C.
Spent today going over plans with the bosses and photographers and planning the shots we need. They have a map set up in a conference room with tiny flags with our names on them showing our various positions throughout the day, like troop movements. My spot for the swearing-in is on the Capital balustrade, which is a balcony on the west front of the building behind and above the podium. The view we’ll get from there looks straight out to the Mall, the Washington Monument and way off in the distance the Lincoln Memorial. So it could be very spectacular with the crowds of people. Rode over to the capital with Paul, one of the Washington photographers who had his truck to take over large boxes of equipment. I took my tripod and big lens to leave on the balustrade. Paul assured me it’s a pretty safe area, you need several passes to get into the grounds, then a few feet away from my tripod is a secret service agent with a large machine gun posted 24 hours a day. I tested several lenses to see the type of pictures I’ll get. Then rushed off to photograph a man for a Swiss magazine who are doing a story on Geneva residents who are attending the inauguration. The man turns out to be an American who is a big fundraiser for the Democratic party and Americans abroad. Tim, Emmanuel, Jewel and myself are staying in an apartment that AFP rented for 3 days, turns out it is the apartment of an AFP economics reporter who must have fled Washington with his family for the week. We got our stuff over to the apartment and settled in.
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