{"id":1015,"date":"2010-06-02T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:49:05","slug":"save-6-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Save 6 Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m getting rather behind with putting work on My London Diary<\/em>, and so far I’m only somewhere in the middle of May and its June already. Yesterday I did manage to finish putting up pictures of a demo outside Broadcasting House to stop the BBC cutting a couple of stations, 6 Music and the Asian Network – more pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Broadcasting House is truly an ‘iconic building’, a phrase that seems to have come into the constabulary vocabulary here to mean almost any large building in London, but at least I had no problems in photographing it. But the building as a whole is perhaps a little difficult to integrate into pictures taken more or less next to it, though I did try once or twice. But really it worked better when I concentrated on the significant detail of the Eric Gill statue above the main doorway. Here’s another:<\/p>\n

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And of course, as so often with demonstrations it helps to get the message in the picture.<\/p>\n

6 Music isn’t a station I listen to – it just doesn’t appear on my radio as it doesn’t broadcast on FM, though I could of course listen on-line.\u00a0 But what little I have heard of it seems to me admirable, very British and very quirky, and this showed in the slogans, placards, banners, dress and performances at the event, and I hope too in my pictures.<\/p>\n

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Although I took some straightforward portraits of the station’s presenters – who were of course appearing in their capacity as licence fee payers rather than presenters, it was a couple of pictures of Liz Kershaw bounding up onto the stage that interested me more; the first image unfortunately\u00a0 I didn’t get quite right, but the second (and there wasn’t time for more) I think catches her well.<\/p>\n

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It’s exactly as I saw and framed it – I seldom crop, though it’s not a religion, just usually things are stronger if I get it right when I take the picture. And this is 100% of the frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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