Capturing Lincoln

[Adsos Letter]

[CrispyQ]

1. I like #3, where the girl with the pink phone is lining up her shot.

[Adsos Letter]

2. She has a nice smile, and obviously focused on what she's doing.

The lady in the first image had a nice smile as well.

I could have walked all over the Mall just taking photos of people taking photos.

[CrispyQ]

6. The last one is nice too,

how you have just Lincoln's feet & she has the entire Lincoln.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Beautiful photos, my dear Adsos Letter!

He sure is popular, and with good reason.

[Adsos Letter]

4. At one point almost everyone in there had phones up for individual/group selfies with Lincoln.

I wasn't quick enough on the draw to capture it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. That kind of photo is really hard to capture!

It's like knowing exactly when the whale will breach so you can catch it out of the water. It's impossible, or nearly.

[Snackshack]

7. I recently rewatched.

The Ken Burns documentary Civil War.

The amount of pressure President Lincoln was under during his time in office is almost inconceivable. He truly was an extraordinary human being. If I had an opportunity to talk with one person from history it would be very hard not to choose him.

[Adsos Letter]

8. I agree.

Pressure at home about the progress of the war, and whether or not the North should continue to pursue it; pressure from the possibility of foreign intervention on the side of the Confederacy; pressure from the enormous casualty figures, with no end in sight; getting re-elected after over three years of increasingly bitter fighting, with the horrendous casualties of Grant's Overland Campaign as a backdrop, and on and on.

Burns' Civil War is an amazing piece of work. We examined it in a Historiography class in college.