As photographer Pete Voelker made his way around Washington, D.C. today, he captured images of a thankfully and yet eerily quiet city, one where ordinary people pressed up against fences to get a glimpse of the ritual transition of power, and where the military and police heavily guarded the empty streets and skies.











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