A few hundred meters from the Gateway Arch is another St. Louis landmark, the Old Courthouse. Its main (dubious) claim to fame is the Dred Scott case of the 1840s, in which a slave sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had been for a time in a free state. He lost in the US Supreme Court in 1846.
I found it very poignant that Barack Obama held a 100,000-person rally in October whose backdrops were the Arch and the Old Courthouse. A view with the Arch: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317493 Close-up: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317490 Reflected: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317486 All taken with the K10D and DA 50-200, ISO 200, handheld, RAW via LR2. Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
