So I covered President Bush's inauguration today, though from the streets instead of the bleachers. You can see the photos here: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2001-bush-inauguration-highlights.html http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2001-bush-inauguration.html On Thursday, I walked from the Capitol building to the White House via Pennsylvania Avenue and took some shots of the inaugural parade preparations: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2001-bush-inauguration-setup-pa-ave.html Note the high security and planned police checkpoints earlier in the week: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-park.html http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-fbi.html On Thursday, when I was standing on a sidewalk in front of the federal courthouse on Pennsylvania Ave (of Monicagate and Microsoft trial fame), a deputy U.S. Marshal told me I could not take a photo of the courthouse. It was a wide-angle shot of the front, and no people or security preparations appared to be visible. Here's him walking back to his van, which appears to have -- from another photo -- U.S. Government plate 60163: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-cop.html I covered the Microsoft trial in that courthouse, took photos of the exterior, and never had any problems from the marshals. Here's a photo I took from that same sidewalk last year when the atmosphere was much less tense: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/9/mike-pettit.html Photos from even earlier in the week: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01636.html I've allowed the Independent Media Center to run my photos from Saturday; you can see some highlights here: http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=5389 http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=5394 http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=5391 Here's one of the Capitol building setup that Wired News ran, though they apparently compressed the JPG image too much with hardly optimal results: http://www.wired.com/news/photo/0,1860,41317,00.html -Declan