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Went to the Obama rally on Friday with Brian, Fani, Kris, and Avery. We got there at about 5 a.m., before the one big line was split into half a dozen smaller lines, and ended up at the very front of one of those lines. While in line, we were offered the chance to sit in Section 106, the "high-energy" section behind the stage that forms a backdrop of cheering supporters for the speakers. It sounded like fun, and they assured me I could still take pictures in this section, so we agreed.

Unfortunately this meant there were three gigantic lights pointed at us from the back of the stadium the whole time, including one directly behind the podium from where I sat, which was blinding and made exposure a bit tricky. So forgive the occasional wacky lens defects in these images.

Brian, Kris, and Avery.

At one point Richardson's speech was brought out to the podium, and I was able to take a zoomed-in picture of it, then zoom in more in my camera's display and actually read what it said, which was rather great.

They played the Will.I.Am video. Which, since the footage in it is from Obama's New Hampshire non-victory speech, I'm technically in, if only as one of the voices chanting "Yes we can!" It was weird to be at a rally watching footage of a rally that I was at.

So because we were in the backdrop section, I naturally had to scour the Internet for coverage in which we appeared! A few screencaps, because I'm a nerd: