Andrew .... interesting piece in today's Toronto's Globe and Mail copied
from the Guardian in London. The NSW government is said to be offering $7000
per person to leave Sydney and move to the countryside. Is this drawing any
howls of protests from city dwellers or is there a stampede for easy cash
and being able to cash out one's home equity :-)
Could be some good photo opportunities to capture the stampede's excitement
:-)
jh
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From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Workers Protests
> Welcome and all that.
> Looks like a good rally - Lots of good, old heads! My last protest was a
> bit more sedate although colourful. Little cameras let you get in close
> and don't threaten the subjects. I've got into events like the Australian
> Open tennis with an mFT kit when people with SLR kits were given a hard
> time by security. I suppose that's the Leica effect?
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 01/07/2011, at 7:24 AM, Gerry Walden wrote:
>
>> I think this is my first image post here so I better give a brief
>> introduction. I am a pro living in Southampton and working with recently
>> acquired micro four thirds gear, namely an E-PL2 and a Lumix GH2.
>>
>> Today in Southampton there was a fairly large workers protest about
>> government pension cuts etc. to the public sectors workers and I covered
>> the event using my Pen E-PL2 using the 14 - 40mm kit lens. I found that
>> the little Olympus was ideal for this and made me less obtrusive in some
>> way, being better than a large pro camera. Here are a couple of images
>> from the protests:
>>
>> http://t.co/6Ntw5dY
>>
>> http://t.co/v2Cf74N
>>
>> Thanks for looking!
>>
>
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