Curious things were afoot elsewhere on the web on May Day. I was busy taking pictures most of the day, finishing at the London Stock Exchange a little after 7pm where I was one of very few photographers present when OccupyLSX actually arrived at its doors and set up a token camp.
It’s a nice story and I had some decent pictures – though it had been a day when I’d forgotten to increase the ISO as the light had dropped, and not all of them were sharp enough. People will move, and the best pictures are usually when they are moving.
So for once I put myself out and got the work ready to file within around 90 minutes of taking them. But it proved impossible to upload them to Demotix, whose servers were severely overloaded, and when I did finally manage to upload them, the server failed to process them. After an hour or so of trying I had a story with a single image visible on Demotix and it took another thirty minutes and many retries to get the rest there.
You can see the piece at Occupy London gets to London Stock Exchange on May Day
on Demotix. And eventually it will be posted in more depth on My London Diary, where of course you can see my account of their October attempt in Occupy London Kept Out Of Stock Exchange.
In October police stopped Occupy from getting to the Stock Exchange
I had three other stories to post from earlier in the day, but I needed to eat and sleep. I hope Demotix will have quietened down enough for me to post those later today.