{"id":1321,"date":"2011-05-24T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-05-25T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:16:36","slug":"keep-the-nhs-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Keep the NHS public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/20110517-d0015.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"600\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was surprisingly dark and gloomy on the Euston Road around 5pm when I arrived for the Islington march to &#8216;Keep the NHS Public&#8217;, which was gathering under the trees opposite University College Hospital. Although I know that digital cameras such as the Nikon D300 and particularly D700 that I use give great results at high ISO, I find I still have a great reluctance to push them into the regions that were off limits in the days of film.\u00a0 Looking at the results I got, it seems obvious that I should have given myself at least a stop more to work with most of the time, and there were just too many that were not quite sharp enough, either because of slow shutter speeds or insufficient depth of field.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first people I met there was a woman I&#8217;ve known for some years &#8211; and a former colleague of my wife &#8211; who embroiders her own placards for protests.\u00a0 The health service affects us all, and there were a very wide range of people attending the protest along with many medical students and health professionals, and I hope my pictures reflect this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/20110517-d0145.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I rather liked this woman who was walking around at the start of the march waving a red &#8216;Unite &#8211; the union&#8217; flag, reminding me of a socialist realist poster, and took a number of pictures &#8211; several of them on My London Diary &#8211; though I don&#8217;t think any of them quite caught what I saw. I also took several pictures of\u00a0 one of the organisers of the march, Janet Maiden, who works in the Haematology department at UCH, which I felt happier that they captured some of her energy &#8211; even if they weren&#8217;t always quite sharp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/20110517-d0170.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Backgrounds are important too &#8211; and in the image above it is clearly to those who know London taken at UCH. More readily recognisable are perhaps these gates at Downing St, where a small group decided to sit down away from the main group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/20110517-d0453.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and even more so, the man on the column in this image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/17\/20110517-d0392.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2011, Peter Marshall\" height=\"600\" width=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although I perhaps took better pictures with the slightly less well known but still fairly recognisable National Gallery and portico of St Martins in the Fields in the background, which you can see with the rest of the pictures on My London Diary in <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/05\/may.htm#nhs\">Keep The NHS Public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- O.ooooo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was surprisingly dark and gloomy on the Euston Road around 5pm when I arrived for the Islington march to &#8216;Keep the NHS Public&#8217;, which was gathering under the trees opposite University College Hospital. Although I know that digital cameras such as the Nikon D300 and particularly D700 that I use give great results at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep the NHS public<\/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":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}