Merry Christmas 2025
Merry Christmas
A few weeks ago i looked through the all of the pictures I had taken this year – or as least all those I had selected to put into my Lightroom catalogue – this almost 25.000 was probably rather less than half of the actual exposures made as I cull out many I don’t find of some interest and choose only the best of similar images. These are are the two pictures I printed and gave to a few close friends, now online with my Christmas Greetings too all on social media.
It was a long process – and made rather longer by my falling asleep a few times working late at night so I’m not sure I saw every one of them. At first I selected around 30 or 40 pictures, then cut these down to a final two.I wasn’t looking for my ‘best pictures of the year’ but ones that might be usalble as Christmas Cards,
Most of my pictures this year were of pro-Palestine protests which our politicians have stigmatised as ‘Hate marches’ and anti-Semitic. Quite clearly they are neither, with many Jewish protesters taking part, including including a few survivors of the holocaust and rather more of their sons and daughters.
The mass media have largely give us a very misleading view of the marches, which are against not Jews but the policies of an Israeli state which as widely been accused of genocide, killing large numbers of women and children as well as men with little or no connection to Hamas, bombing schools, hospitals and refugee camps preventing medical and other urgently needed supplies from crossing the border.
What hate I have seen has come from largely from those small groups of Zionists and others who have opposed these marches. I think all or almost all the Jewish people I know are opposed to Netanyahu, some seeing his relentless killing of Palestinians as a desperate attempt to cling to power and avoid prosecution.
But in the end I didn’t chose an image from the Palestine protests, but one from the March 8th women’s march, and the second from a March 22nd protest by disable people in fear that a Labour government will drastically cut the Personal Independence Payment, PIP.
