Pictures from Inaugural Parade (the American Sector) and the W2 Inaugural Ball

January 23, 2005 | Shethink13

[Shethink13]

Parade Pics

The American Sector - Safe Haven for Bush Supporters - No Commies Allowed

Buford and two friendly Bush supporters

Ironman - on Pajama Patrol

A group of Boy Scouts observe the happenings directly behind the American Sector

A lurker and a future lurker

Unidentified freeper

Buford, BlondeKates (daughter of yours truly) and her friends love the color red

RaceBannon, PeterKessler, and CongressmanBillyBob - 3 wild and crazy guys

kristinn hands out signs

Freedom is not free!

W2 Inaugural Ball Pics

Governor Huckabee guitar solo

SonofHillaryisevil and Sara (friend of BlondeKates)

SonofHillaryisevil (a popular guy!) and BlondeKates

Me (Shethink13) and my hero - Jim Robinson

The yout's (as Rush would call them) of Free Republic celebrating W's win

The 29 year old crowd gets in on the act as well

Capitol Offense

W Victory Dance

Having a ball at the W2 Ball!

Hillaryisevil and Sonof

More fun times

Shethink13 with PeteKessler

Shethink13 and kristinn - end of the ball self-portrait - oh what a night!

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

As usual your pictures are EPIC!

I think you've figured out how that camera works.

[rabidralph]

Thanks, I had a great time.

[rabidralph]

That's funny. I usually duck the cameras, too. I guess that's why I prefer to be the photographer.

[rabidralph]

Thank you very much. No, I did not link them. Which is the official thread?

[rabidralph]

You'll first want to reduce the pixel size of your pictures so that they don't overwhelm the server and our individual ISPs. If you can get each individual picture reduced to 72dpi and around 720x480, that will help to keep the file small. I used Photoshop to resize my pictures and to take out some unnecessary color info to make the file more suitable for the web. Some image software has an adjustment for web use, so please use that and save it with a different file name so that you don't mess up the original image, which you might want to get prints of at a later date. Make sure the finished web file is a jpg.

[deadhead]

My family and I had a great time too. I didn't take many photos, appreciate all the time you took to take so many.

[rabidralph]

I enjoyed taking them. I'm glad you all had fun at the ball. Frankly, I was surprised at how much fun I had.

[rabidralph]

Thanks, JVB! I'm glad I got to meet your wife. I loved the picture I got of you and your twisted tie.

[ironman]

Major thanks. I got thru all 23 pages, thanks to good broadband connection.

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

free dixie,sw

[rabidralph]

I'm glad you liked them. It was great to see you at the parade and the ball.

[mcmuffin]

Thank you for the excellent photos!

It's great to view the fun that was had by those in attendance!

p.s. what camera/flash rig are you using? (my guess is Nikon!)

[rabidralph]

You are correct, sir! I used my Nikon D70, with an 18-70mm lens and a Nikon SB-800 flash. I enjoyed taking pictures of all the happy FReepers.

[RoseD]

Thanks so much for the ping! The pic's are just great! Saw one of me, thanks rabidralph for posting. It was so much fun meeting everyone! Can't wait till next time!

[Radix]

Great images.

I think that I recognized a few FReepers despite that lack of captions.

Thanks!

[Shethink13]

The official thread is here, but I took the liberty of posting the link on it already. Hope you don't mind but the pics are too fabulous not to share.

[rabidralph]

Thank you. There's so many threads running around. I appreciate your help.