{"id":1460,"date":"2011-11-27T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T22:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2011-11-27T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T22:50:50","slug":"ten-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop the War, along with CND and MAB marked the 10th anniversary of the Invasion of Afghanistan with a protest in Trafalgar Square followed my a march to Downing Street, which was led by that redoubtable woman whose picture ended my previous post, Hetty Bower<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I rather like the feeling in this image that the man on her right is not helping her to walk but holding her back.<\/p>\n

It was, as the picture shows, a rather dull day, but for much of the press the big news was the appearance at the event of Julian Assange<\/em>. There was a huge scrum when he arrived into the enclosure around the platform in Trafalgar Square, but I decided it wasn’t worth trying to join it as there would be a much better opportunity later.<\/p>\n

Fortunately I was right, and\u00a0 in just about the right place for it, and took far too many pictures of him. This is the one I like best, though perhaps I could improve it a little with some more work in Lightroom, I think it is just a little too dark at the moment.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t quite get the picture of him that I wanted, something that had a little more character, but it’s certainly better than many I’ve seen.\u00a0 There were far too many speakers (and I missed quite a few while away elsewhere) but I did take a few pictures of them that at least I like.<\/p>\n

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I spent quite a while trying to get exactly what I wanted with Jemima Khan<\/em>, and I think I came close, but had to work in a split second with John Pilger<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve photographed Tony Benn<\/em> so many times that I wasn’t going to bother yet again, but then I saw him and thought the lighting wasn’t bad as he took out his pipe to relax for a minute or two before being interviewed for TV.<\/p>\n

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George Galloway<\/em> always has a good line in theatrical gestures, and I thought this was one of his better attempts, though I’m not sure I would really call him an ‘artist’ as the caption on the screen above him seems to.<\/p>\n

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There is something I really like about that little bit of movement in the far hand.<\/p>\n

Some people are much more difficult to photograph. Jeremy Corbyn<\/em> MP, the newly appointed National Chair of Stop the War Coalition, often seems to speak with his eyes closed or near closed and it seldom makes for a good picture.\u00a0\u00a0 I photographed him waiting to speak standing in front of the Landseer lions, and can’t decide which of the two frames on My London Diary that I prefer.<\/p>\n

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You can see the other one, and my other pictures from the event on My London Diary in\u00a0 Ten Years On – Stop The War Coalition<\/a>. Things got a little hectic for a while at Downing St, and there were so many photographers that I kept getting pushed forward, too close to the action. It might have been a good time to use the 10.5mm, but the crush was so tight there was no way I could change a lens.<\/p>\n

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I could only work with the 16-35, mainly at the wider end, and do the best I could.<\/p>\n

I’ve photographed many Stop The War events over the ten years it has been in existence, and at the moment am eagerly awaiting the launch of a publication celebrating those ten years, which includes quite a few of my pictures. But this event came several months too late to be included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stop the War, along with CND and MAB marked the 10th anniversary of the Invasion of Afghanistan with a protest in Trafalgar Square followed my a march to Downing Street, which was led by that redoubtable woman whose picture ended my previous post, Hetty Bower. I rather like the feeling in this image that the … Continue reading Ten Years On<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","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\/1460","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=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}