I'm sorry if I repeat myself, but I'll put all my gleanings about these photos in one place, and I won't make anything up. When done, will you comment?
1. In the photo with Obama and boy (photo 2), I see the ticket counter behind them. That counter has a raised middle with the ticket equipment, and lower metal-topped baggage counters on each side. The ticket counter has a pole that angles out and then rises up, holding a destination sign, San Francisco.
In the black and white photo (photo 3), I see the same counters, with the same sign. Now I can see that the top of the pole then angles over to hold the destination sign, this time Los Angeles.
2. That same sign in photo 2 was the source of speculation that the photo was actually taken at SFO. An optical illusion makes the sign look like a banner on the wall, but it is really hanging on the metal pole. In the photo with Obama and Ann (photo 1), I can see how the bottom right corner of the San Francisco sign covers the top of the Philippines Airlines sign on the back wall. See my post 2834 for more of my thoughts on the position of the photographer, angle of shot, and impact on terminal landmark movement.
3. In photo 2, above the boy's left shoulder I see the distant orange-colored Christmas tree (tree 1). I can see a vertical line on the right running up along the side of tree 1. This is another ticket counter sign pole. This one is holding a square sign. The sign is blocking the top of the Christmas tree. Below the tree, I can see the ticket equipment behind the counter.
In photo 3, I can see that the ticket counters are arranged in rows, with the different stations hanging different rectangle and square signs, just like in photo 2.
4. In photo 3, I see a lighted wall sign that runs the length of the wall. This sign says "Pan American." Below is a wall map of the world.
In photos 1 and 2, I see the same kind of lighted wall sign. In photo 1 I can see that the sign says "Philippines Airlines" and "Japan Airlines."
In photo 3, to the left of the "Pan American" sign, I see a sign that says "To Gates." From this, I glean that the "Pan American" side is facing the tarmac. I see the row of windows below the ceiling, which I glean was put on this side to see the planes coming and going. In photos 1 and 2, I see no windows below the ceiling. I glean that this is because it is the street side.
5. In photo 3, I see the ceiling lights that form a row of three-light rectangle fixtures running the length of the ceiling by the wall, then a row of single round lights. In photo 2, I see the corner of the same rectangular fixture with the square counter sign blocking out the middle light. The single round light is in the corner of the photo.
6. Conclusion - I conclude that all the photos were taken in the same terminal.
I believe that Obama, Ann, and the boy, were located near the wall map when they took photos 1 and 2. In photo 3, the right-back-corner counter sign is behind and below the square sign from a counter up front. The resolution of photo 3 blurs out the text of the counter sign, but if I really wanted to believe, I could be convinced that the counter sign says "San Francisco." The square counter sign in front of it is the one I see blocking the top of tree 1 in photo 2.
The person who took photos 1 and 2 would have been facing the spot that the photographer of photo 3 was standing, shooting back at their spot.
-PJ
The real point of looking at these photos is this.
The issue about Obama's place of birth has been in circulation for many years--I haven't researched the question but I believe it was an issue in all of his earlier political campaigns. He has stonewalled the inquiry. As his political goals came to include the presidency, the inquiry became a little more intense. Articles suggesting that there was live testimony from Sarah (one of his father's other wives) and two half siblings that they were present when he was born in Kenya. The English versions of those stories have been removed from the web and although I have been told that some versions in Africa publications still exist, I am not sufficiently sophisticated to search for them. Also, there is a report out (Wayne Madsen) that documents demonstrating his birth in Kenya have been obtained. To date, none of that evidence has reached the public debate and obviously, the Obama campaign will continue to use its best efforts to control it--access to all of the individuals who have first hand knowledge (including his grandmother--his mother's mother) has been effectively cut off.
In this kind of inquiry, collateral facts tend to focus the investigation. The airport pictures are evidence on the time line; both with respect to the birth location and marriage issues with respect to Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham.
Obama is on the record as having characterized the airport picture of his mother and Obama Sr. as a "wedding picture". The mother is on the record under oath in her divorce proceeding that they were married on Maui. Obama fixes the date at February 2, 1961.
In the picture, they are in a departure area--ticketing and baggage check in, at the Honolulu Airport. Christmas decorations are still up. No way to be precise but you would expect Christmas decorations in public places to be gone by the end of December or early January. Way too early to be leaving to go to Maui for a wedding a month later.
There is no record of the marriage in Maui or anywhere else that has been searched to date.
So, if Obama's description of the wedding picture can be supported, it is at least a reasonable inference that they are leaving for a distant area where the marriage (given the existence of Obama Sr.'s other wives) would be legal--probably Kenya.
And that would then become part of a timeline that placed the mother in Kenya, pregnant, prior to the birth. It would leave you looking for information in a much shorter time period where your last real fact left the mother in Kenya.