Check this out... Snipers?

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I work in D.C. all the time around the White House and the Capital building.

We just finished with an installation in the Capital Building.

Yes,there are snipers full time around the White House and the Capital Building.

Plus full time surveillance and other security details you will never see.

It is the number one terrorist target in the world,it has to be this way from now on.
 
There is a black guy who could be a senator (I have no clue) but he's sleeping lol.

Look behind obama on HIS left, just a couple seats in. Black guy, larger balding with short grey hair
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brentn...

That's a US Supreme Court Justice LOL
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Not just a Supreme Court Justice, but likely the most pro 2nd Amendment Justice currently in place, Clarence Thomas. Likely even more so than Scalia, who delivered the majority opinion for us on Heller and has his arm on the railing behind Obama in that picture.
 
I heard reports that the Obama's were wearing bullet proof vests......any truth to that?
 
Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Heller and was joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito. If Thomas had written the majority opinion, I suspect the opinion would have been at least a bit broader. The dissenters were Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer.

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Wouldn't these guys be in the role of counter-sniper?
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Yeah, of all these pics here, none of them show anybody with their long guns. I suspect the "counter-sniper snipers" are concealed.
 
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There is all kinds of stuff in that photo. I spotted a lot of look-out teams, a lot of civilian groups on rooftops, what looks like a street market on top of a rooftop LOL with a lot of outdoor tents set-up, a few sniper teams and that only took me about 30 seconds to see. In any case, most of what people are thinking of as snipers had to be lookouts because they were not in a sniper-like position/pose/stance whatever you want to call it. However, the number of civilian looking people that I seen, including photographers, allowed on the roof tops of neighboring buildings completely boggles my mind. However, this was no easy security task to pull off. IMO, it was more or less luck that something did not happen even though I am sure that they had the place as secure as they possible could. Course, for those people mentioned wearing BDU's and black windsuits, I find this a very stupid and comic attire, for someone that is in front of a white building or background. That is not exactly a good choice of attire if you want to remain hidden LOL, then again maybe that was their intent, maybe they want to be seen for the sheer fear factor of their presence.

I have also spotted several questionable people and a few photographer's that would have got my attention as their cameras and lenses are facing a completely different direction as the other few thousand are.
 
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A pair of legs - with no body !!!

Check out the pair of legs with boots but only to the thighs.

They're just to the left (looking toward Obama) of that huge camera scaffolding which sits 40' high right in front of Obama. The electronic "picture combining system" must do some hi-tech "guessing" during the combining of the photos but I have no idea why it would cut a person in half.

This is facinating technology!
 
That pic is a composite from several lenses. It's cool, but not high technology. If you look closely, you'll see random limbs out of place. It's a great job though.
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yes, different shots placed together.

Take a look at the leftmost 'banner' of 2 red stripes and one large white middle stripe onthe capitol, it isn't lined up right.
 
no jumping signs?

I Goooogled them and went to the Golden Gate photo.
I looked ever so hard and I found no NO JUMPING signs!
Like GUN control that would work riggggggggghttttt?
 
Whether the image was made with a robotic positioner, or with a more conventional multi-row panorama head:
http://reallyrightstuff.com/pano/07.html
-it takes quite a little while to shoot the whole composition. I've built my own multi-row panorama heads, and my largest compositions so far consist of 69 separate images ( 3 horizontal rows with 23 images in each row ). They do have to be precisely spaced. Once the images are shot, they have to be compiled and blended with software that is designed for that purpose:
http://www.ptgui.com/
It's because of the time between exposures that you can find elements in the image that aren't properly merged. Stationary objects are fine, and there is just no way to get moving objects completely right.
ANY digital camera can be used, but of course, some work much better than others, especially when there is more than one row of images.
If anyone is curious about this stuff, let me know....
 
Regular Joe,

Or better, you could have 10 or so high quality cameras, each pointing at a different angle, shooting simultaneously. Because the position here appears to be a reserved photographer's location, I can see this technique as a possibility. Even then, there may be slight time differences, but not nearly as bad.
 
Probably. In 2002 a few friends of mine from college (went to school near the city) went down to the National Mall for fireworks on the 4th (which was AMAZING as a side note). There were snipers on the roof of the Lincoln Monument. I am sure there were plenty of snipers on the buildings.
 
If you go straight back from Obama all the way to just before the seats start to rise up you will see a seated admiral. Just behind him is a space alien.
 
Who is the guy seated directly in front of Chief Justice John Roberts?
 
Look at the second level of the Capitol Rotunda. The two guys closest to the camera look like they're wearing bomb gear (probably just heavy outerwear) and there's a laser rangefinder on a tripod. I would bet they have a heavy black rifle somewhere at their feet out of sight.
 
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