http://snarkinfested.com/2009/10/04/red-mass-2009/ Journal of Photographer Patrick G. Ryan, Datelined (mostly) Washington, DC Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://snarkinfested.com/2009/10/04/red-mass-2009/#comment-409 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:38:59 +0000 http://snarkinfested.com/?p=1012#comment-409 One click later I found this, today I will sleep in peace, thank you for writing this.

]]> http://snarkinfested.com/2009/10/04/red-mass-2009/#comment-237 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:26:28 +0000 http://snarkinfested.com/?p=1012#comment-237 [...] 10/04/09 New US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer exit St. Matthew’s Cathedral at the conclusion of the Red Mass. [...]

]]> http://snarkinfested.com/2009/10/04/red-mass-2009/#comment-164 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:19:51 +0000 http://snarkinfested.com/?p=1012#comment-164 [...] Back to the photograph – the horizon is askew as if the photographer jumped in front of the scene for an instant to capture the image quickly. The notes attached to the image indicate that it was shot on a glass negative so the photographer must have been lugging a huge 4×5 camera.  The picture has both an immediacy – the front pallbearers are in mid-step – and a “frozen in time” feel to it. It was taken 70 years ago, but the facade and steps of the cathedral look the same today. [...]

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