Playing catch-up on DNC photos: more from Invesco

Better late than never ...

The sun sets behind Invesco Field as, on the big screen, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduces Barack Obama.

This is the best I could do, a mile away with a shitty camera, to get a picture of the nominee.

I guess not everyone in Denver was happy to see us ... or maybe this is just a typical Republican greeting. Or both.

Getting out of Invesco was a colossal clusterfuck. Whereas most entrances to the stadium area were open beforehand, the police funneled all 85,000 of us out through just three exits. So besides getting lost (if, like us, your original entrance was blocked for egress), we ended up in massive human traffic jams. Some enterprising folks, though, created a new exit by tearing down one of the temporary fences so that we could climb over the concrete barricades.

Here's a closer look at the new impromptu exit, as one of the two -- TWO! -- cops on scene tries to figure out what the hell to do. Finally, whoever was on the phone with him told him to let us go ahead, rather than try to close the fence back up. (Stay tuned for video of this scene.) Video of this scene is at the bottom of this post.

The intrepid Sucky Blogger himself goes all artistic and shit with cigar and throwback sweatshirt whilst waiting for his FPC colleagues to return. It ended up being a long wait ... like 2½ hours. Oh well ...

UPDATE (1:29 pm 9/2/08): As promised, here's the video of the police trying to close that "new" exit from Invesco. The police officer, after shouting, "Go that way!" tells one woman whose companion is still behind the barricade, "I don't care, I'm sorry ... that's why there's a barricade here."