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File: 2025002-0054
Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
If you are wondering about the meaning of the title The Megaphone Back in Action, that is because this photo was taken within few minutes of file 2025002-0048 which showed this person, along with two others, attempting to get the megaphone working. They managed to get the problem with the megaphone sorted out, so they can start using it.
While attending the Trans Resistance Rally event at Bristol as an out-of-work freelance photographer, looking to freshen up and improve my skills, I was looking around for anything interesting going on.
As in the previous shot, I saw this person with the short black T-shirt carrying a megaphone, had been attempting to get the megaphone working, hence the other two came around to help out.
Now that it was working fine, this person started using it at the beginning of the protest. At that point in time, the gathering was still growing bigger and bigger.
It was shot in colour, I converted it into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, and cropped it while in Adobe Photoshop.
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File: 2025002-0116
Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
There was a protest by transgenders in Bristol, one of the many around the United Kingdom, in respond to the Scottish Supreme Court ruling.
I went there as an out-of-work freelance photographer to do some photojournalism of the event.
At that time I took the photograph, the people taking part in the protest were mostly arriving, and the crowd was gathering. They all were simply milling about, as the march was not due to start for the next 45 (ish) minutes.
I was looking around for some shots of the protesters getting ready, and noticed this photographer doing the photojournalism.
In the background are the protesters, and like I said, were simply milling about.
Sometimes I wonder, this is what I look like to other people.
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Photograph published in News Junkie Post and The Duran
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File: 2025002-0256
Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
After the Scottish Supreme Court ruling that sex is defined as sex at birth, many transgenders all around the United Kingdom staged a nationwide protest in major cities.
I heard that there was going to be one in Bristol, and being familiar with how to get in and around Bristol, I decided to go there to do some photojournalism shots of the event.
I found the starting location, and saw a gathering of many people, so I started taking photojournalism shots of the protesters, many of them were sitting down and listening to various speakers taking turns giving speeches, until it was ready for the march into the main city centre.
I slipped in and out of the crowd, moving around them, trying to find any interesting shots that I could find.
I noticed this lady with the Intersex Inclusive Progress pride flag tucked into her ponytail, as she listens to speakers, and decided to grab some shots.
The photos were taken just some minutes before everyone were to get ready for the start of the march into city centre.
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File: 2025002-0186
Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
A transgender rights organisation arranged for a protest to take place in Bristol on that day. While the crowd was gathering at College Green before they were due to start the march into city centre, there were speakers taking turns to speak out their options.
At that stage, a group of transgender rights protesters invited a small group of people who were protesting against Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, to stand with them.
This lady is part of the transgender rights movement, you’ll notice that the flag she holds is actually the Palestinian flag.
While the people in the group were taking turns to speak, I was trying to get some shots, and zoomed in on her as she was speaking.
I converted it into black and white for a dramatic feel, and old fashion newspaper style image.
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File: 2023006-0675
Working Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This is a photo of the what I believe to be volunteers and staff for the St John the Baptist church. The building on the left side behind the people is the church on the junction of St John Street, Church Street, and Working Street.
The parade went past this church, and still have to go around one large block (two streets) to reach the finishing point.
The photos were shot in colour, I used Adobe Lightroom to convert them into black and white, for dramatic and old fashion newspaper feel to it.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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File: 2023006-0359
St Mary Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken on St Mary Street, between Guildhall Place and Wharton Street.
This group of people are members of a band called Barracwda, the ones at the front are using just the drumsticks, but the ones behind them are using drums.
Barracwda is Cardiff’s Afro Brazilian inspired band, and according to their Instagram profile, said ”fusing the love of samba with funk, reggae and jungle.”
This is all the information I could get out of the Internet.
At that time the parade was still in its early stage, the front part of the parade would have already on behind me as I took those photos. I hang back to find more interesting shots from the rest of the parade.
Never assume the front of the parade makes great journalism photos, there would always be something worthy anywhere along the whole parade.
This was my second Pride photography, having done the Bristol Pride in 2022. I was covering the pride parade in order to build up a portfolio, with the aim of going freelance.
That day was a very hot sunny day, the parade was about one mile in length, and for those taking part in the parade, it would take them only about an hour to complete the journey. It took me about two hours, considering I often went back and forth along the parade looking for better shots.
At the end, I got myself a massive sunburn, but don’t worry, I learnt my lessons, on the next similar photography pursuits, I use sun cream.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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File: 2023006-0335
St Mary Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken on St Mary Street, between Guildhall Place and Wharton Street.
This lady is seen wearing a T-shirt with the word Barracwda on the front, she is a member of a band called Barracwda.
Barracwda is Cardiff’s Afro Brazilian inspired band, and according to their Instagram profile, said ”fusing the love of samba with funk, reggae and jungle.”
This is all the information I could get out of the Internet.
At that time the parade was still in its early stage, the front part of the parade would have already on behind me as I took those photos. I hang back to find more interesting shots from the rest of the parade.
Never assume the front of the parade makes great journalism photos, there would always be something worthy anywhere along the whole parade.
This was my second Pride photography, having done the Bristol Pride in 2022. I was covering the pride parade in order to build up a portfolio, with the aim of going freelance.
That day was a very hot sunny day, the parade was about one mile in length, and for those taking part in the parade, it would take them only about an hour to complete the journey. It took me about two hours, considering I often went back and forth along the parade looking for better shots.
At the end, I got myself a massive sunburn, but don’t worry, I learnt my lessons, on the next similar photography pursuits, I use sun cream.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Düsseldorf-Hafen is an urban borough of Düsseldorf, Germany, located on the river Rhine and the location of the city's docks.
The borough covers 3.85 km2 and is predominantly commercial and industrial in nature, with a very small residential population. It had 212 residents in the year 2000, making it the Düsseldorf borough with the lowest population density.
The docks prospered for decades but lost much of their trade when Mannesmann closed its nearby pipe factory. As a result the eastern part of the docks started to be redeveloped, attracting businesses in the service sector such as media, design and fashion companies. One of the first new residents to the so-called Media Harbour was Westdeutscher Rundfunk with its current affairs TV and radio studios. Düsseldorf local radio station Antenne Düsseldorf is also based in the harbour area. One of the largest cinemas of Düsseldorf is in the Hafen. The Landtag (State parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rheinturm are situated right next to the harbour.
Within the Hafen district is the Neuer Zollhof an ensemble of three warped-looking buildings by architect Frank Gehry and other postmodernist buildings. There are also many restaurants, bars, and a few clubs, which make the Hafen a prominent lifestyle district.
The western part of the area still has actively used docks for barges that transport materials on the Rhine. There are plans for further redevelopment with the construction of high end apartment buildings.
In 2003 the port company merged with the port of Neuss on the opposite bank of the Rhine to form Neuss-Düsseldorfer Häfen GmbH & Co. KG.
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Russia's ambassador to Ireland, Yury Anatollyevich Filatov appears on a 'Lost Dog' poster opposite the Russian Federation's Embassy in Dublin. Simply put, this man has proven himself to be an out-and-out liar. On 2 February 2022, he said to an Irish government committee that there was an "almost daily drumbeat of so-called imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine" and claimed there were no facts to support the invasion "fantasy". In an interview on 16 February 2022 with Irish current affairs television program Prime Time he said the idea that Russia would invade Ukraine was "insane".
File: 2023006-0524
St Mary Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken somewhere outside of The Alchemist, and Flight Club bars. (Note in the background on the right side of the photo, you may make out the Greggs bakery.
This section of people taking part in the parade are police staff, or in Welsh language Heddlu.
Among with them is someone wearing a red dragon mascot outfit, with a flag in the mouth. Notice the guy in the T-shirt looking back, he is likely to be making sure the mascot guy is doing fine.
The Pride parade was about one mile in length, and for those who were taking part, it would take them about an hour from the starting point to the finishing point. But as I keep going back and forth along the parade looking for any interesting shots, it took me like about a couple of hours, and I ended up with sunburn.
It was my second time doing a Pride parade photojournalism, as I had done the Bristol Pride in the year before that, which was also a very hot sunny day too.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Title Page for a new blog I have created called What Matters. It is a blog based on articles I have written concerning news, current affairs, and other topics that have taken my interest. It is set up as an interactive blog, where discussion on the issues raise are encouraged....
File: 2023006-0250
High Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
The photograph was taken on High Street, roughly near to the High St Arcade, entrance.
Those people were holding up the colourful balloons designed to spell out the word PRIDE. They are the ones at the front of the parade, and in this photo, they were not far from where High Street ends, and becomes St Marys Street.
Notice the security officers and police officers at the front escorting the parade leaders, and also notice the other journalist also at the front (like the cameraman seen in file 0240).
This was my second Pride photography, having done the Bristol Pride the year before, and my fourth photojournalism kind of photography. I was simply being an unpaid freelance photographer, taking the photos in order to build up experience and portfolio.
That day was a very hot sunny day, the parade was about one mile in length, and for those taking part in the parade, it would take them only about an hour to complete the journey. It took me about two hours, considering I often went back and forth along the parade looking for good shots.
At the end, I got myself a massive sunburn, but don’t worry, I learnt my lessons, on the next similar photography missions, I use sun cream.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Chris is a homeless guy who has chosen the lifestyle. He was telling me how he prefers to live on the streets rather than having to conform to what most people call a normal life. He went on to say that he felt safer on his own away from people during the current pandemic. Interestingly the homeless population here in Calgary hasn’t been greatly effected by Covid19 and infections have remained low. Chris was well educated, sober and very well informed on current affairs. He was everything opposite to how people imagine vagrants to be.
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TED: "I gotta lot to fank Donald for - 'e stopped me frum frowin' this pussel in the bin! We dun most of it over a cupple of days an' all we 'ad left wuz the blue sky.
So we 'ad them blue peeces layed out an' new we 'ad to try evry peece to fill in the gaps, but it wuz reely reely BORIN'!
I got fed up after gettin' stuck a few times, I 'ad to keep takin' peeces out an' swoppin' 'em arownd an' Dad wuzzn't no 'elp, 'e sed 'e's temperarrily lost 'is pusslin' mojo - huh! - so I neerly jacked it in.
But Donald came to the rescue - YAY! - an' took over while I went an' 'ad a lie down in a darkened room.
'E plugged away at it fer a few 'ours last nite before bed, an' got up early this mornin' to finnish it, an' so 'ere it is - TA-DAAAH!!"
DONALD: *modestly* "It was nothing, really!"
File: 2023006-0008
Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This street vendor is seen here carrying two bags full of long balloons, all of various colours, and he is seen trying to make his way towards the rear of the parade.
By strange coincidence, if you look in the background, near the top, you’ll notice the building’s shop front have three long strips of colours, just like the balloons.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
The Comment Box is NOT an adverting billboard or adverting space for the groups. Do NOT leave canned comments or award codes. You are free to comment on my photograph, about the subject in the photo, or your similar relevant experience. If you want to promote the groups you are member of, do it in YOUR own photos and YOUR own Photostream.
File: 2025002-0010
Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
This is one of the earlier shots I took of a protest outside the council offices in Bristol. At that point of the time, people were gathering around, and it was building up, so it would be a while before there’s something going on. In the meanwhile, I was like doing a warming up, getting into doing some shootings simply by looking around for anything interesting to take photos of.
I figured this flag will do nicely, but even thought there was a very light breeze, it was not enough to keep this flag flying, I was still trying to catch it showing the whole flag. It was best I could come up with, and in the background is the actual council building.
The protest was gathering at College Green, and building up until there was plenty of protesters before they march into the city centre.
I start off a new series with this photo, the series is about the transgender protests, I believe called Trans Resistance Rally, organised by various groups, the photos will be slotted in between other photos I’m still uploading.
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Klavdij Sluban .
Winner of the Niépce Prize (2000) and of the Leica Prize (2004), Klavdij Sluban is a French photographer of Slovenian origin based in Paris. Now aged 42, he continues the development of his rigorous and coherent body of work. Sluban learnt the subtleties of black & white printing under the guidance of Georges Fèvre. Although he held a Masters' degree in Anglo-American literature, little by little, he gave up teaching to commit wholly to photography. Never inspired by immediate and sensational current affairs, Sluban's numerous photography trips are permeated with literary references for example, Beckett, Milton. The Black Sea, the Caribbean, the Balkans, and Russia can be read as many successive steps of an in-depth study of a patient proximity to the encountered real. His deep blacks and backlit silhouettes convey to his photographic style uprightness and accuracy free of didacticism or exoticism. In 1997, his work Balkans Transits, which he published with François Maspero, was awarded the RFI (International French Radio) prize. Since 1995, when not abroad, Sluban has run photography workshops with young offenders in prison. First originated in France, in the prison of Fleury-Mérogis with support from Henri Cartier Bresson, Marc Riboud and William Klein, this commitment was pursued in the disciplinary camps and prisons of Eastern Europe - Ukraine, Georgia, Moldavia, and Latvia and in the disciplinary centres of Moscow and St Petersburg. By offering us pictures of those places he is familiar with and of their inhabitants to whom he is a true partner, Sluban unveils the problems of closed spaces and constrained horizons. And by doing so, he brings to both our consciousness and senses the fractures of a confinement enhanced by the internalization of perceptions.
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Kiev 60 TTL ,Volna 2.8/80 mm , f 2.8 1/60 , Fujifilm REALA 100 , 2 m .
Shalini Ganendra Fine Art Gallery.
Malaysia , UK .
Part of the 52 Weeks of 2018
Week 19
Theme: Hands
All the recent talk of data breaches, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandel and GDPR legislation have lead to lots of thoughts about how much data we have out there and who has access to it. So I thought I'd create a photographic representation of this.
Giving over your data, releasing it to the cloud, loosing your grip on it.
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St Mary Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This photo was taken on St Mary Street, between Guildhall Place and Wharton Street.
Here, I spotted her doing roller skating instead of walking like everyone else, so I attempted to take some shots of her, and that was when she spotted me, hence her smiling at the camera.
This was my second Pride photography, having done the Bristol Pride in 2022. I was covering the pride parade in order to build up a portfolio, with the aim of going freelance.
That day was a very hot sunny day, the parade was about one mile in length, and for those taking part in the parade, it would take them only about an hour to complete the journey. It took me about two hours, considering I often went back and forth along the parade looking for better shots.
At the end, I got myself a massive sunburn, but don’t worry, I learnt my lessons, on the next similar photography pursuits, I use sun cream.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
The Comment Box is NOT an adverting billboard or adverting space for the groups. Do NOT leave canned comments or award codes. You are free to comment on my photograph, about the subject in the photo, or your similar relevant experience. If you want to promote the groups you are member of, do it in YOUR own photos and YOUR own Photostream.
File: 2022004-0900
Anchor Road, Bristol, South West of England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 9th of July 2022.
About the photograph.
At one time between 1987 to 1989, I did try taking photojournalism kind of photos of college students going on a march, while I was attending college. Since then, I have not done any photojournalism kind of photos for a few decades.
I would consider myself still inexperienced in the field of photojournalism, and the Bristol Pride was the first of a big current affairs event that I attended and took photograph.
I walked all the way from the starting point to the finishing point of the Pride parade, which took me about a couple of hours, allowing for the fact that I sometimes went back and forth. Normally everyone on the parade would take only about an hour to get to the end.
Once I reached the end, I decided to double back, and try to grab more shots.
Here, I find some of the emergency services, like the ambulances and police cars, bringing up the rear. They were at the rear end of the parade, maybe ready for any emergencies, specially as it was an extremely hot weather, and anyone could faint from the heat.
I thought of calling those shots The Back Up.
Those are some of the last shots of my 2022 Bristol Pride photo-shoots, after that, I went back to my car, and went to my friend’s home in Bristol, to stay and have a long rest. (I live like 60 miles away, would not be safe to drive home after too much sun.)
I hope I’ve done okay with those the event, if you want to see more of the Bristol Pride photos, there is an album on this subject in my Albums section.
About the event.
Bristol Pride is an annual festival held over couple of weeks, promoting equality for the various LGBT+ people, with a march through the city at a weekend.
The Bristol Pride started life in 1977 as a fundraiser for the local LGBT community, and evolved into an annual event held every year. There was a gap of only some years between 1994 to 2010 when it was restarted.
The 2022 march started at Castle Park, near Castle Street. The route took them past Cabot Circus, and went around the major shopping area by using The Horsefair and Union Street, and as they went down Union Street, they headed towards Castle Park. When they reached Castle Park, they turned into Wine Street, went into High Street, and into Baldwin Street, headed towards the A38 which is Anchor Road. This route took them into Canon’s Road, and ended up near the Bristol Aquarium.
The march was said to take about an hour, but as a photographer whom would go back and forth, up and down the line, looking for good shots, it took me at least a couple of hours to complete the route.
After the march, those whom bought tickets, can attend an evening musical festival at The Downs, approximately to the north-west of city centre. I did not attend this event, and by the time I got back to my friend’s home, I was worn out from the heat.
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CNN: In an unexpected move, Pope Benedict XVI -- born Joseph Ratzinger -- has announced that he is to resign. Benedict was elected pope in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II. In his statement, Pope Benedict -- who turns 86 in April -- said he had come to the certainty "that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry." Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Pope Benedict had the right and potentially the duty to resign. But he stressed that the pope's decision was not because of any external pressure. The pope said that he would step down at 8:00 p.m. on February 28, Rome time. A meeting of the College of Cardinals to elect the next pope will be held. The gathering is known as a "conclave." Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said there would be elections some time in March and he anticipated that there would be a new pope before Easter. It is the first time a pope has resigned in nearly 600 years. The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII in 1415. He stepped down to end the "Great Western Schism" -- during which there were rival claims to the papal throne. According to the National Catholic Weekly, modern popes have felt that resignation is unacceptable and could encourage factions within the church to pressure pontiffs to step down. Canon law states that a resignation must be made freely and properly manifested and that the pope resigning must be of sound mind. According to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, Pope Benedict will return to being known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger once he has stepped down as pope. He will be addressed as his eminence or Cardinal Ratzinger.
When the Pope (Benedict XVI) is in Rome he blessed the crowds (in 7 languages, do you know them?) in Piazza San Pietro every Sunday at noon. The event is also recorded, this is from June 17 2012:
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
A march, like a parade, would take months and months of planning, and likely to involve the council closing some routes, and the police setting up road blocks. The organisers would spend some time attending meetings, to talk about the routes, and therefore would be already familiar with where to go.
But in this case, this protest was quickly set up within some days, in respond to a court ruling, thus would be hastily planned, with no road closures, and no police escort. Those guys appear to be unprepared for the route, so they look like they’re having an on-the-spot meeting, to talk about what routes to take.
Some of them are wearing high-visibility vests, and they are the ones likely to have organised the rally, and will be guiding the march through the street.
I was looking to see if I could get any interesting shots, and I figured that those guys having a quick meeting like this, may make an interesting story.
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This is a panorama of The Chater Valley in Rutland, England,just a few minutes from my home.... We also have a News and Current Affairs program called Panorama.....! Very tenuous I know......
Something for the TSC [The Sunday Challenge]
I try not to have politics of current affair effect my LEGO building, but the current war in Ukraine has put me off building military models. I had a few new models planned and have been buying parts for them, but they're on hold. I've also been working quite a lot, which leaves me with less time end energy to build. And I've enjoyed a few social things. So, no new models.
Instead I'm posting one of the oldest models that I currently have in my collection. I built it back in 2009. At the time, it represented a fairly typical modern Dutch fire engine. Now, more than 12 years down the line, a lot of these DAF LF models have been retired. However, there are still some in service and I still like the model. It's had a few small upgrades over the years, but a couple of weeks ago I decided to make a few more small changes. the cab is slightly higher, I changed the red, white and blue pattern on the front and added new lights to the roof. I also replaced some of the stickers, because they had become quite dilapidated. Also, 12 years ago Dutch fire fighters wore black outfits and so did my LEGO versions. However, in recent years dark tan outfits have become the norm for Dutch fire brigades. So, I built some new fire fighters too.
I'm making new plans for a few more new models. I've been thinking about building a Mercedes Unimog as used by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution) and a Renault recovery vehicle as used by the British AA breakdown service. I have a model of one of their vans, but it too is quite old (10 years) and that particular model hasn't been in use for years.
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Cathedral Plaza, at the south end of High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Sunday 6th March 2022, at around 2pm to 4pm.
About the photograph.
This photo shows a guy taking his turn to speak out his option of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while a group of people are listening.
Notice the two people at the far left side of the photo, one of them holding a placard saying ”Tyrants always fail” and the other person with a Ukraine flag on shoulders. There is a closer photo of them in my Photostream.
The last time I attended a protest to try to do some photojournalism kind of photography, was back in 1987-89 during my college days.
Since then, been trying to get a job in photography or graphic design. Got married, started having kids, then got a divorce and became a very busy single parent and full-time carer. Now that my kids are older and left home, I’m free and independent, so I decided to try to get back into doing photography. I need to refresh my skills anyway.
In the first week of March, 2022, I heard that there was a planned protest in Worcester which is the nearest city, so the night before, I charged up my Nikon’s batteries, formatted the memory cards to make sure I have plenty of storage space left for more photos, and made sure my photography kit bag is ready.
On the afternoon of Sunday, I drove to Worcester, parked my car at the car park, and walked over to the Cathedral Plaza, which is where the protests were due to start. At that time (March 2022), the Knife Angel, a 27 feet tall sculpture made out of knives seized by the police, was on display.
As the 2pm start was approaching, more and more people arrived there, I would say there was around about between 50 to 75 people, or something like that. The protest was really more like a Speaker’s Corner kind of protest, with many people just standing around, rather than a march. At least 4 or 5 different guys took turns to speak out their statements, while some people held up their placards. There wasn’t much of a protest, but then again, it is because Worcester is a small city compared to other major cities where protests were taking part on massive scale.
I tried my best to do a photo-journalism kind of photography, I went around the crowd and took as many photos as I could. Those are just the few good photos I could find out of the approximately 400 photos I managed to take.
About the overall subject.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on the 24th of February 2022, and in a short space of time, many Europeans, Americans, mostly and mainly anyone of “Western” lifestyle, people living in free countries, with freedom of speech, of choice, of votes, many of them started taking to streets to protest against the Russian invasion.
There were so many signs in various languages, often advising that Russia should leave Ukraine, stop the war, Putin being a war criminal, and so on.
This protest that I attended to take the photos, was organised by the Worcester Trades Union Council, and was listed on the Stop the War Coalition website, under the No to War in Ukraine protests section. This was just one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of protests happening all around the world on Sunday 6th March, in respond to President Putin‘s decision to attack Ukraine.
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[polish language spoken, subtitles in English]
Under the lining of dreams (OBEnauts) is a reportage, made in 2008 at OBE fans camp in Poland. OBE means Out of Body Experience, NDE means Near Death Experience and LD means Lucid Dreams. Style of this documentary video is a freestyle speaking at close up camera shoots. It support the sincerity of speaking people and their emotions. Director and crew are not intervene in the set and not manipulate anything, so sometimes it is an impression of somehow incoherence and naivety etc. However after 12 years director thinks, that this video may be interesting in a light of current affairs. Director thinks, that image still present some of the Truth.
Written&Dirrected: Mateusz Droba, cinematography: Paweł Dunia, Marek Czarnik, Mateusz Droba, editing: Mateusz Droba, music: Krzysztof Jaros, production: Marek Czarnik & Mateusz Droba, Poland 2008.
This version is (c) to PLEOROMA & Marat Dakunin 2022
Director's Statement 2008 & 2020
Film został zarejestrowany na zlocie fanów tzw. "OBE" w 2008 r. Przedstawiłem swobodne wypowiedzi uczestników, bez żadnej ingerencji i bez montażu reżyserującego wypowiedź itp. W bliskich ujęciach dokumentalnych, na twarz, mówiące usta, mimikę, starałem się oddać "prawdę mówiącego". Wydaje mi się, że film pokazuje szczerość wypowiedzi. To, o czym i jak, wypowiadają się Bohaterowie, cechuje w moim przekonaniu znaczne pomieszanie fantazji, pewnych przewidzeń, dopowiedzeń i mylnych interpretacji, nie przeczy to jednak temu, że jest tu także obecna Prawda.
Tę prawdę, choćby w tym materiale było jej niewiele, chciałem pokazać. [Marat Dakunin, 2008]
Obecnie, chciałbym dodać jedno: Z wiedzy, jaką udało mi się uzyskać, z najbardziej wiarygodnego Źródła, tzw. OBE - LD itp. nie nadaje się w zasadzie do niczego innego, jak do rozrywki (entertainment). Tak więc, ponieważ obecnie, sytuacja wzywa raczej do pracy, a nie rozrywki, prezentuję ten film jako ciekwostkę. [Marat Dakunin, PLEOROMA, 2022]
A Mil Mi-8 helicopter of the Air Force of the former National People's Army of the GDR (East Germany), originally designed by the Soviet Union. This is the same model that was used to drop radiation-absorbing materials into the 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the explosion.
This helicopter is on display, together with other East German aircraft and vehicles dating back to that period, at the Schifflersgrund Border Museum in the municipality of Asbach-Sickenberg (Thuringia). The museum is located on the former border strip of what used to be the inner-German border between Hesse and Thuringia and is a memorial to the division of Germany.
Visiting this museum was really a moving experience. Citizens have secured parts of the border fortifications, including an observation tower and the longest original section of the former inner-German border fence, preserved in their original condition.
This museum is much less touristy and much more 'authentic' (absolutely 'no-frills' and certainly rather humble in terms of the facilities and exhibits used) than what you can visit in Berlin.
I have lived in Germany for six years now and I often forget that this country was once divided, but at the time I followed the fall of the Berlin Wall with much trepidation on television and in the newspapers (I was a child, but very interested in current affairs and my father had been to both Berlin and Moscow in the 1980s for university research and had told me a lot about these places).
Last month I rather randomly ended up spending a few days in this former border region and took the time to get to know some of the stories of the people and the villages that were separated by an insurmountable border for forty years - right in the middle of Europe.
Not only are the traces of history well preserved in many places in this region, often thanks to the efforts of citizens who do not want the events of the past to be forgotten, but my impression is that traces of the past are also very visible in the architectural style and the state of preservation of villages that are less than five kilometres away from each other and that the inner German border used to separate.
Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund, Asbach-Sickenberg, Werratal, Thüringen, August 2022.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
There was a protest by transgenders in Bristol, one of the many around the United Kingdom, in respond to the Scottish Supreme Court ruling.
I went there as an out-of-work freelance photographer to do some photojournalism of the event.
When I arrived, they were still gathering and building up, this would be why you notice in the background, some people are sitting down. They’re simply waiting for the start of the march into city centre.
Not much was happening, it was just mostly milling about and listening to some people taking turns to speak out.
I was looking around for interesting subjects to take photos of, I just noticed this placard of the British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. It looks like someone used photo editing software to create the illustration of the PM as being the devil.
What is more interesting about it, is that the person who made this placard had decided to create a border around the placard, so it looked like a framed picture.
Generally the majority of the people in any protests, strikes, parades, mostly don’t bother with a frame around the placards, which is why I was wondering about it, and decided to take a photo of it.
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A dramatic scene as Tibetan supporters hold up flags and shout and scream "Free Tibet" at the top of their voices.
Photos can provoke such powerful opinions. I'd just like to say that I'm neither in support of or against the whole "free Tibet" argument. I think it's sad that the Olympic Games are being hijacked by political agendas. At the end of the day I'm just a photographer and I like to cover current affairs events in the city I live in. I went to this event and as I was walking around I noticed these people and thought it would make a great photo, however it's in no way reflective of my opinion on the Tibet issue but I hope you do like the photo!
Listen to my audio recording from the London Olympic torch rally.
Schifflersgrund Border Museum in the municipality of Asbach-Sickenberg (Thuringia). The museum is located on the former border strip of what used to be the inner-German border between Hesse and Thuringia and is a memorial to the division of Germany.
Visiting this museum was really a moving experience. Citizens have secured parts of the border fortifications, including an observation tower and the longest original section of the former inner-German border fence, preserved in their original condition.
This museum is much less touristy and much more 'authentic' (absolutely 'no-frills' and certainly rather humble in terms of the facilities and exhibits used) than what you can visit in Berlin.
I have lived in Germany for six years now and I often forget that this country was once divided, but at the time I followed the fall of the Berlin Wall with much trepidation on television and in the newspapers (I was a child, but very interested in current affairs and my father had been to both Berlin and Moscow in the 1980s for university research and had told me a lot about these places).
Last month I rather randomly ended up spending a few days in this former border region and took the time to get to know some of the stories of the people and the villages that were separated by an insurmountable border for forty years - right in the middle of Europe.
Not only are the traces of history well preserved in many places in this region, often thanks to the efforts of citizens who do not want the events of the past to be forgotten, but my impression is that traces of the past are also very visible in the architectural style and the state of preservation of villages that are less than five kilometres away from each other and that the inner German border used to separate.
Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund, Asbach-Sickenberg, Werratal, Thüringen, August 2022.
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Unsurprisingly, Stockholm City Centre was pretty deserted on the night of the terror attack. It was quite eerie.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I knew County Hall, and the Greater London Council (GLC), very well in the 1970s. That was because I was local government researcher and correspondent for Thames Television – in those days, the national ITV station that also served the London area.
Thames took its local government reporting very seriously (and received plaudits for it). And so we come to this TV studio photograph – the set of our open-ended results programme not of a general election, but of the local election across the 32 London boroughs that comprised the GLC.
We've just completed a run-through and it's shortly before we go on air on 9th April 1970. That’s me on the left in shirtsleeves talking to Roy Fewins, the floor manager. Seated to the right at the election results desk is the legendary Alastair Burnet with Peter Tiffin, the studio director (standing). Then Peter Taylor, who’s discussing possible election outcomes with a psephologist whose name I can’t now remember.
And just look at the cutting edge technology… that election ‘swingometer’ next to Alastair!
By today’s television standards, the set design was very simple: 'GLC 70', underneath which are 32 squares, each one representing a London borough.
Boy, did we all work our socks off – and the programme delivered the results. We came off air at around 2am, adrenalin flowing like mad, knowing we’d done a good job for London.
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Please do us all a favour and go quickly.
This morning's newspapers headlines, now old news as he's delivered a resignation speech at lunchtime today.
Supermarket newspapers, Tesco Poole Quay 07.07.2022
Townend's family library, which was started 400 years ago, is made up of around 1,500 books which cover many diverse topics; from novels and poetry to farming, religion, law, medicine and current affairs. The books were apparently well loved and used by the family, (and in many cases their neighbours too) based on the physical evidence they contain, such as greasy finger marks, gravy stains, and corners turned over.
The library contains 45 entirely unique books – ones that have not survived anywhere else in the world. Some of these are delightful slightly bawdy storybooks – called chapbooks.
These were designed for the slightly lower echelons of society, and as such, would have been viewed as being beneath national institutions such as the British Library.
An example of one of the chapbooks is ‘The Crafty Chambermaid’s Garland’ from 1770. It tells the tale of a rich merchant who falls in love with his mother’s maid.
He tries to seduce her, but she knows he isn’t interested in marriage so she decides to play a trick on him. She invites him to her bedchamber – only she gets a toothless old hag to get into the bed and pretend to be her.
Needless to say the amorous merchant gets quite a shock, and runs screaming down the stairs! The plucky young maid’s efforts pay off though – the merchant’s family are so amused by the story that they decide to let him marry her, in spite of her lowly background. [National Trust Townend Website]
Donald Trump in prison uniform, chained to fence, The High Line, Meatpacking District, Manhattan, NYC. 2019.
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Outside the Bristol City Council offices at Collage Green, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 26th April 2025.
About this photograph.
While attending the Trans Resistance Rally event at Bristol as an out-of-work freelance photographer, looking to freshen up and improve my skills, I was looking around for anything interesting going on.
I saw this person with the short black T-shirt carrying a megaphone, and started speaking, but soon found there were problems with the megaphone. While trying to get it working, the other two came over to help out.
I was trying to get a better angle, and hope to include the troublesome megaphone in the shot, but figured that the problem could be short lived, they could simply have sorted it out within a matter of seconds, so I didn’t want to risk missing the photos by moving around and looking for a better angle.
I simply started taking the photographs, while at same time attempting to move around for a better viewpoint. But as I figured, they didn’t take too long to try to get it working.
It was shot in colour, I converted it into black and white while in Adobe Lightroom, and cropped it while in Adobe Photoshop.
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Christmas decorations in what would usually be one of the busier streets in Central Brussels. Again, pretty empty during the state of emergency.
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Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
This is a photo of a lady, I think a transgender lady, whom had this impressive black outfit, including what looks like an oversized vinyl record as a hat, completed with a good looking label. Really impressive headgear.
Back in the old days, sometimes records like those, commonly a 12 inches diameter record played at 33 and half rpm (revolutions per minute), is often known as a LP meaning long play, and usually good enough for a full-length album. That’s why I give it the title of The LP Lady.
The photograph was converted to Black and White in Adobe Lightroom, for a good old fashion newspaper like image.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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Near Castle Arcade entrance and opposite of Revolution restaurant, on Castle Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.
About the photograph.
Those two people wearing white hard hats and yellow high visibility vests, may be staff for a business (like a building business) or an organisation (like country council) that support the LGBT.
Here, they are chatting to each other while they, like many other people, were waiting for the Pride Parade to get underway.
Notice in the background, to the right of the photo, another person wearing a hard hat, this time a blue one.
About the event.
Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.
In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.
Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.
The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.
Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.
That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.
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