BGuthrie Photos: DC -- U.S. Capitol -- Dalai Lama (w/Nancy Pelosi and Richard Gere)

DC -- U.S. Capitol -- Dalai Lama (w/Nancy Pelosi and Richard Gere):

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Description of Pictures: The International Campaign for Tibet is honored to announce a public address by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on October 17, 2007 following his receipt of the Congressional Gold Medal in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Congress has passed a resolution permitting the International Campaign for Tibet to sponsor a public event on the Capitol grounds in connection with the Gold Medal award ceremony. ICT is working with U.S. Tibetan Associations to organize a special event and celebration of the award, being presented to His Holiness in recognition of his enduring and outstanding contribution to peace, non-violence, human rights, and religious understanding.

The Dalai Lama's speech will follow cultural performances by the Tibetan community in a gathering expected to be attended by thousands. Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to attend the festivities on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Mall.

Note: Also present were Richard Gere and Nancy Pelosi.

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1. DALAI_071017_008.JPG: I'm not sure I'd ever walked across the reflecting pool before
2. DALAI_071017_058.JPG: My co-worker Tanya
3. DALAI_071017_088.JPG: Richard Gere
4. DALAI_071017_143.JPG: This was my first view of the Dalai Lama (in red). He's walking with Nancy Pelosi.
5. DALAI_071017_209.JPG: Nancy Pelosi
6. DALAI_071017_217.JPG: The Dalai Lama's people presented a commemorative thing to Pelosi
7. DALAI_071017_225.JPG: The Dalai Lama is on the left under the umbrella
8. DALAI_071017_282.JPG: The Dalai Lama will be putting the ceremonial scarf on Pelosi
9. DALAI_071017_288.JPG: Dalai Lama and Nancy Pelosi @ the Capitol
10. DALAI_071017_299.JPG: The Dalai Lama has put a visor on
11. DALAI_071017_405.JPG: A female monk
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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