While sifting through mounds of old photos, I came across one from Ronald Reagan's 1st Inauguration on January 20, 1980. I was working in downtown DC, about 50' off of Pennsylvania Ave. After the swearing in ceremony at the Capitol, the procession began to the White House, down PA Ave. I remember climbing up onto a an Army flatbed truck, setting up a tripod w/ a Nikon F2 (BD-Before Digital) Film camera with a 300mm f2.8 (BAF-Before Auto Focus) and making this image of President Ronald Reagan standing through the sunroof, waving to the crowds of people.
Ya think this will ever happen again? No way any trucks let a non-credentialed photographer climb up on it, and No way President Elect Obama stands through the sunroof waving...
Times have certainly changed, and keep changing...Hard to believe that was 29 years ago
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