Attendees at a rally for Senator Barack Obama shoot cameraphone images outside Guadalupe Plaza in San Antonio. I didn’t get to see the crowd inside the plaza, but about 1,000 people overflowed, packing the street outside despite assurances they couldn’t get in. Obama addressed the overflow crowd before starting the official event, and despite the distance — I’dve needed a 300 to get a shot of the candidate — the crowd threw up cameras and phones and tried to capture the feeling. 

Who knows, maybe even in grainy low-res JPEG, they did catch that feeling. There’s a ruined Polaroid that I’ll always treasure simply because it reminds me of a feeling, it reminds me of what I felt in a moment. 

There’s poetry somewhere in there, but it escapes me right now.