What that idiot doesn't want anyone to remember is... That was a bunch of Right Wing Christian Fundamentalist Religionists WITH GUNS!!!
Oh! Could you not zoom in so tight on the next series so's we could see some "open space" and maybe even some "urban sprawl" to give us a better perspective on the actual size of the crowd??? Those photos are great, but entirely too generous in the perception that they might have been packed that tightly for blocks and blocks, or something erroneous like that!!!
Sorry. You are right. When you use a long lens it tends to make the crowds look denser. I was shooting from the third floor windows of the old section of the Capitol.