Better late than never, I found a terrific assortment of presidential photographs online Monday:

Indisputably, the most breathtaking gallery of inauguration photos came by way of the The Big Picture at boston.com. Honestly, digital images look so great in this grand format, I can’t begin to imagine why every newspaper photography staff doesn’t get this kind of display.

Next, try the amazing gigapixel panorama at: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=15374 Be sure to pan and zoon with the controls at top left. You can almost read the Marine band’s sheet music.

Also, you really ought to check out the New York Times blog post on the visual legacy of President George W. Bush. Mission recorded.

Finally – I saw this one last week – but I think everybody agreed that a remote camera photo by Chuck Kennedy of the McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service really stole the show.