January 20 2009 -- Eastern Inaugural Ball

Taken with my girlfriend's Sony DSC-W90 point and shoot. It is a nice little camera, and I was impressed with the image stabilization, and surprisingly pretty happy with the noise level at iso 1600 on such a small sensor with densely packed pixels. It's not the false color and hot pixels you often see (although that may be noise reduction), but it's obvious even at these small sizes.

Still, really wish I had my D40.

Capital at night from Union station.

Union station is nice, and I really loved the blue on the ceiling.


With reflected red lights from the stage



Candle.

Columns and pillars and statues.

I need to find out who this band is, but they were great. It was rather surreal to see a gaggle of middle aged people in tuxes and ballgowns dancing to "Play that funky music white boy", "Brick House", and "The Electric Slide".

More decoration.

James Taylor. -2 exposure compensation (as far as it will go) and still his face is just blown out highlights.

Kinda creepy Obama mask.

Spiderweb

Subway.