As soon as I saw this young girl dressed as a sunflower I knew there was a picture there, but it took me a while to find. I started with a close up, but wasn’t entirely satisfied with either this or two other images of the girl with two women.
There were of course plenty of other sunflowers, a symbol of renewable energy, with the sun as a smiley face in the centre of the banners reading ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’. Many of those taking part in the protest were carrying sunflowers, and there were other symbols around, including the CND one above and the radiation logo.
And there was something surreal about the fluorescent yellow barrels of nuclear waste that were parading around, although my best attempt to capture that was ruined by another photographer going into the scene to take photographs; not that I’m blaming him – he was just getting on with the job in his own way, and I know I often frustrate others doing what I want to do. But there was something about the barrels that worked best from a distance and I couldn’t manage that without others getting in the way, so I had to settle for a closer view.
I tried but failed to make a decent picture using Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, because this was a Fukushima 2nd Anniversary protest, and one led by Japanese Against Nuclear UK.
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My London Diary : Buildings of London : River Lea/Lee Valley : London’s Industrial Heritage
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