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I was pleased with this image, taken at a protest outside the London HQ offices of security firm G4S\u00a0 – you can see the others from the set I made at Support Hunger Strike in Israeli Jails<\/a>. There have been regular protests outside the offices on Victoria St, and it was difficult to think of some different way to show them, having covered quite a few.<\/p>\n

I’m just slightly annoyed that I wasn’t working with the zoom lens just a little wider – it would have been good to have the word ‘TORTURED’ under the pictures of the boys from Hares – the ‘Five Palestinian Children’ who have been held in solitary confinement in small empty underground cells in a prison where G4S provides their support.<\/p>\n

It was a cool, dull and slightly wet afternoon, and the tall buildings along the street channel the wind, turning the area of pavement where the protest was held into a wind tunnel. I made some more general images of the protest, and there was no problem in getting the Palestinian flags flying.<\/p>\n

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But I decided to concentrate on people handing out leaflets, using the 70-300mm to zoom in on the actual leaflets in some images – like this:<\/p>\n

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So for the top image, I was at the widest focal length the lens goes – 70mm – and really would have liked it to be just a little wider. It would have been a little better if I had been working with the 18-105mm.\u00a0 The longer lens is fine for what it does, but very much less flexible than the 18-105mm.<\/p>\n

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The long lens worked for a number of images. I particularly liked a rather athletic pick-up of a leaflet by one man walking past – here is one of the two images of his. It’s an image I think I could improve by a little more post-processing to bring out more shadow detail; the pictures on My London Diary are usually from the fairly rapid editing that I do to get pictures to the agency within a few hours, and this was a very busy day. This story was my third of the day and I had to rush several miles across London after the half hour I spent there for another protest.<\/p>\n

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I’m only aware so far of one image from this set having been used, and it was this image of a man walking with his bike past the stall – and taking a leaflet from the woman at the right. This was taken with the 18-105 mm at 18mm. As with the other images, I tried to concentrate on the protesters, showing those taking the images either only as hands or arms or working from behind them.<\/p>\n

More of my pictures from the event – and more information about the protest at Support Hunger Strike in Israeli Jails<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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