A good seat and a nice view

Well, not an actual seat.  We pretty much had to stand for six hours.  Still, it was the first time I've photographed an inaugural from the "South Media Platform."  (Four years ago my job was to photograph people on the National Mall, "The Faces Tell the Story II", which was a great assignment for the first Obama inaugural.)  But even if there were no chairs the view was indeed a good one, and since I was there so early, it included a chance to watch sunrise over the Capitol and the Mall.