It wasn't easy to get used to having Frank submit sharp pix, then color pix, then nature and scenic pix (!) either. The man just keeps challenging us.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 3:24 AM Subject: Re: GESO - Occupy Toronto: The Final Days Frank: It's going to take some time getting used to the idea of you shooting with a phone camera :-). Cheers, Christine On Nov 25, 2011, at 4:00 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a bit of what's happened with the Occupy Toronto thing, not > because you're interested, just because it'll put the gallery in > perspective. > > On Monday a judge ordered that the city could proceed with it's > "eviction", meaning that they could serve the occupiers with notices > under the Trespass Act to boot them out. By Tuesday about 1/3 to 1/2 > of the tents went down voluntarily and there weren't many people > around. From discussions I had with protesters, many were talking > about what they'd do next, whether they'd give up for now and regroup, > or if they'd immediately set up in another park. > > The first five photos in this gallery were taken on that "quiet" Tuesday. > > Wednesday the police moved in ~en masse~ to get the last of them out. > Lots and lots of press were there along with many gawkers and > observers. The final photos were taken that day. > > I chatted with a few cops who really didn't want to be there - a huge > chance that things would get ugly. But it didn't. I think there were > three arrests after all was said and done, and no violence or > uprisings. By Thursday, the park looked like they'd never been there. > > So, here's the gallery, all taken with my phone camera: > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-toronto-final-days.html > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
