{"id":10518,"date":"2020-02-21T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10518"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:26:34","slug":"earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10518","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/09\/20\/20190920-d0032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a huge turnout for the Global Climate Strike on Earth Day, with many organised groups from schools attending, and an incredible range of hand-made posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/09\/20\/20190920-d0318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Way down Millbank there was a lorry where speakers and groups were performing, but the street was so crowded it was hard to get through to it. At one point I went down a side street and made my way forward a block to reach the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/09\/20\/20190920-d0074.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I&#8217;d photographed the people at the front of the crowd I slowly made my way back through the crowd, photographing groups of people with placards. The crowd was tightly packed and I often had to squeeze through, but people moved to let me through, sometimes even before I had asked. Getting enough space between me and those I wanted to photograph was however often difficult. Most of these pictures were made with the Fuji XT1 and the Fuji 10-24mm zoom, mainly at or close to its widest setting, equivalent to 15mm on full-frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/09\/20\/20190920-d0328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually I was free of the close-packed crowd, but there were still a large number of protesters in front of Parliament and in Parliament Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/09\/20\/20190920-d0352.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the main rally was in the morning, other groups were also meeting in London, some coming to Westminster later, and I left to photograph some of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2019\/09\/sep.htm#global\">Global Climate Strike Rally<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center\">All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\" class=\"has-text-align-center\">There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, please <strong><em>share on social media<\/em><\/strong>. <br>And <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Rephoto\" target=\"_blank\">small donations via Paypal<\/a> &#8211; perhaps the cost of a beer &#8211; would be appreciated.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a huge turnout for the Global Climate Strike on Earth Day, with many organised groups from schools attending, and an incredible range of hand-made posters. Way down Millbank there was a lorry where speakers and groups were performing, but the street was so crowded it was hard to get through to it. At &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[661,44,485,632,239,1552,17,16,336,1458],"class_list":["post-10518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues","tag-climate-chaos","tag-climate-crisis","tag-climate-disaster","tag-climate-emergency","tag-climate-strike","tag-earth-day","tag-london","tag-protest","tag-school-strike","tag-westminster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10523,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions\/10523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}