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Washington DC, Saturday October 26, 2013. On a beautiful fall day social justice activists from a bewildering array of often antagonistic groups unite in front of Union Station and march to the reflecting pool near the US Capitol for an afternoon rally. The primary focus was the nearly unbridled and unlawful US government spying worldwide by the NSA and other agencies exposed by whistle blower Edward Snowden.
Several hundred people have staged a protest march in Hong Kong in support of US-whistleblower Edward Snowden. Demonstrators marched from Chater Garden to the US Consulate in Central. Protesters accused the US government of infringing people's rights and privacy. They said Mr Snowden should be protected. The former CIA-employee, has said he'll stay in Hong Kong to fight any attempt to extradite him to the United States. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong has urged the US government to clarify whether it has hacked into the computers of any individuals, corporations or institutions in Hong Kong.
Activists in New York's Union Square braved pouring rain and wind to demonstrate their support for Edward Snowden, who is reportedly the source for explosive revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) routinely monitors virtually all personal electronic communications in the United States. The Obama administration is expected to seek criminal charges against Snowden but the issue has the potential to turn into a major crisis for the scandal-plagued White House.
The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, was just renewed.
The scope of the American police state & the criminality which gave it birth is only dimly grasped by most citizens. Moreover the political players, all of them claiming along with the nation's mainstream news organizations that national security concerns justify every sort of loss of privacy & liberty - including one's life - are parties to the ongoing crime, in which the Constitution was among the first things members of congress silently allowed Bush & Obama to begin & continue shredding.
Pulitzer prize winner Chris Hedges, sometime university professor, sometime uncommonly courageous war correspondent for The New York Times, author of 10 books, Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute, 2002 recipient of the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, described what is happening in his Dec. 23, 2012 essay published by Truthdig.Com, titled The Final Battle. Here is its concluding paragraph:
"The corporate state knows that the steady deterioration of the economy and the increasingly savage effects of climate change will create widespread social instability. It knows that rage will mount as the elites squander diminishing resources while the poor, as well as the working and middle classes, are driven into destitution. It wants to have the legal measures to keep us cowed, afraid and under control. It does not, I suspect, trust the police to maintain order. And this is why, contravening two centuries of domestic law, it has seized for itself the authority to place the military on city streets and citizens in military detention centers, where they cannot find redress in the courts. The shredding of our liberties is being done in the name of national security and the fight against terrorism. But the NDAA is not about protecting us. It is about protecting the state from us. That is why no one in the executive or legislative branch is going to restore our rights. The new version of the NDAA, like the old ones, provides our masters with the legal shackles to make our resistance impossible. And that is their intention."
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I must add that in my opinion anyone who thinks anything said by Hedges or Greenwald is too shrill is helping my nation & the world (in which America is now relentlessly a corrupting influence & the deadliest force) in the hastening practice of Hell.
GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping
The California Democrat's disgusting rhetoric recalls the worst of Dick Cheney while advancing Obama's agenda .... Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein joined with GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss to extend Obama's warrantless eavesdropping powers.
By Glenn Greenwald, Constitutional Lawyer, writing for The Guardian, UK
28 December 2012
EXCERPTS:
1) ... many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what type of politician Barack Obama actually is. Six months before, when seeking the Democratic nomination, then-Sen. Obama unambiguously vowed that he would filibuster "any bill" that retroactively immunized the telecom industry for having participated in the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program.
But in July 2008, once he had secured the nomination, a bill came before the Senate that did exactly that - the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - and Obama not only failed to filibuster as promised, but far worse, he voted against the filibuster brought by other Senators, and then voted in favor of enacting the bill itself .... Jointly written by Dick Cheney and then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller, it also legalized vast new, sweeping and almost certainly unconstitutional forms of warrantless government eavesdropping .... the warrantless eavesdropping "scandal" that led to a Pulitzer Prize for the New York Times reporters who revealed it ended not with investigations or prosecutions for those who illegally spied on Americans, but with the Congressional GOP joining with key Democrats (including Obama) to legalize most of what Bush and Cheney had done .... the Obama White House opposed all [modest modifying] amendments, demanding a "clean" renewal of the law without any oversight or transparency reforms.
2) ... Obama successfully relied on Senate Republicans (the ones his supporters depict as the Root of All Evil) along with a dozen of the most militaristic Democrats to ensure that he can continue to eavesdrop on Americans without any warrants, transparency or real oversight. That's the standard coalition that has spent the last four years extending Bush/Cheney theories, eroding core liberties and entrenching endless militarism: Obama + the GOP caucus + Feinstein-type Democrats. As Michelle Richardson, the ACLU's legislative counsel, put it to the Huffington Post: "I bet [Bush] is laughing his ass off."
3) .... Feinstein stood up on the Senate floor and began by heaping praise on her GOP comrade, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, for leading his caucus to join her in renewing the FISA act without any reforms. She then unleashed a vile attack on her Democratic colleagues - Wyden, Merkley, and Udall, along with Paul - in which she repeatedly accused them of trying to make the nation vulnerable to a Terrorist attack.
Feinstein insisted that one could support their amendments only if "you believe that no one is going to attack us". She warned that their amendments would cause "another 9/11". She rambled about Najibullah Zazi and his attempt to detonate a bomb on the New York City subway: as though a warrant requirement, let alone disclosure requirements for the eavesdropping program, would have prevented his detection. Having learned so well from Rudy Giuliani (and Harry Reid), she basically just screamed "Terrorist!" and "9/11" over and over until her time ran out, and then proudly sat down as though she had mounted rational arguments against the transparency and oversight amendments advocated by Wyden, Merkley, Udall and Paul.
Even more notably, Feinstein repeatedly argued that requiring even basic disclosure about the eavesdropping program - such as telling Americans how many of them are targeted by it - would, as she put it, "destroy the program". But if "the program" is being conducted properly and lawfully, why would that kind of transparency kill the program? As the ACLU's Richardson noted: "That Sen. Feinstein says public oversight will lead to the end of the program says a lot about the info that's being hidden."
Please continue to the full text of this very well written, highly informed & impassioned plea for ridding ourselves of these 'leaders' & restoring human rights slowly acquired down the ages at a cost of property, lives & sorrows so kingsized that my bones shudder without option for relief while trying to imagine it:
➽ www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/fisa-feinste...
Thank you.
Several hundred people gathered at Chater Garden in Central, Hong Kong yesterday to show their support for Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who recently made the US NSA PRISM electronic surveillance program public.
Since the PRISM program does not really distinguish its users — and specifically if is _really_ is to protect the American public from terrorism, then it is clear that foreign traffic is its target, banners and signs specifically call on the US government to stop spying on foreign data.
Snowden has also mentioned that the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), its being the main backbone of Hong Kong’s internet traffic, has been one of the hacking target by the NSA, including other private businesses and citizens. The locals are specifically enraged by this fact, especially since the US has called on China for doing cyber espionage on American technology companies.
Perhaps China is also trying to do anti-terrorism? Hey, you never know.
# SML Photography Workflow
This panorama covering 360-degree horizontally and 96 degree vertically was stitched doing using 22 full res capture with the 6D + 17-40 f/4L. It is hard to get an aerial vantage point on this gathering, and noting that the event already has many public media presence, I chose to do panoramic photography for the most part of this event.
This is stitched together using Autopano Giga 3, with the anti-ghost algorithm. Since the program cannot output layered PSD files with layer masks I can only utilise their algorithms to managing ghosting vs missing body parts. You will see mostly odd time-variable missing body parts in this case.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:30:33+0800
+ Dimensions: 18543 x 5432
+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/9.0
+ Focal Length: 17 mm
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ Panorama FOV: 360 degree horizontal, 96 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Cylindrical
+ GPS: 22°16'53" N 114°9'37" E
+ Location: 香港中環遮打花園 Chater Garden, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.6D.15735-SML.20130615.6D.15756-Pano.i22.Cylindrical.360x96
+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
遮打花園遊行人群 Crowd at Chater Garden / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行全景 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden Panorama / SML.20130615.6D.15735-SML.20130615.6D.15756-Pano.i22.Cylindrical.360x96
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Several hundred people have staged a protest march in Hong Kong in support of US-whistleblower Edward Snowden. Demonstrators marched from Chater Garden to the US Consulate in Central. Protesters accused the US government of infringing people's rights and privacy. They said Mr Snowden should be protected. The former CIA-employee, has said he'll stay in Hong Kong to fight any attempt to extradite him to the United States. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong has urged the US government to clarify whether it has hacked into the computers of any individuals, corporations or institutions in Hong Kong.
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Edward Joseph Snowden, aka Edward Snowden, is a security contractor who leaked information about surveillance programs operated by the United States and British intelligence agencies.
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Obama Concerns on Surveillance
Before starting his summer holiday, US President Barack Obama leaves a few remarks at a time when leaks by the former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden has ripped the veil from the agency’s expansive spying both inside the United States and abroad.
Washington DC, The White House, the evening of July 14, 2014. Code Pink, The Washington Peace Center, Arab Anti-Discrimination League and US Campaign To End The Israeli Occcupation sponsored a rally to protest the bombing and siege of Gaza, the lawless and pointless spying on Muslim citizens by our out of control government and the continuing barbaric incarceration without charge or trial of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba despite our President's broken promises to end it. Muslim groups had been invited by President Obama to the White House to break their fast at an Iftar meal to celebrate Ramadan but some are boycotting this event.
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Edward Joseph Snowden, aka Edward Snowden, is a security contractor who leaked information about surveillance programs operated by the United States and British intelligence agencies.
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Activists in New York's Union Square braved pouring rain and wind to demonstrate their support for Edward Snowden, who is reportedly the source for explosive revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) routinely monitors virtually all personal electronic communications in the United States. The Obama administration is expected to seek criminal charges against Snowden but the issue has the potential to turn into a major crisis for the scandal-plagued White House.
Edward Joseph Snowden, aka Edward Snowden, is a security contractor who leaked information about surveillance programs operated by the United States and British intelligence agencies.
The source image for this illustration of Edward Snowden is a Creative Commons license photo by Laura Poitras from Wikimedia.
Keith Brian Alexander, aka General Alexander, is an Army four-star general and serves Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA), Chief of the Central Security Service (CHCSS) and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
The source image for this caricature of Keith Alexander is a photo in the public domain from the U.S, Strategic Command. The background image is based on a Creative Commons licensed photo from donielle's Flickr photostream.
Hong Kong policemen (and policewomen) stood by in front of the Consulate General of United States of America before the rally made their way to the consulate. Journalists from different international public media outlets were all wrangling to try to find a good spot at the site.
The US consulate in Hong Kong is situated on a hill with a very narrow side street (Garden Road) thus making it hard to find a good spot to photograph.
Also, unlike the US, there is no law in Hong Kong which states that it is illegal to photograph the police, so policemen in Hong Kong could only give an annoyed glance at photographers without being able to bully the photographers.
(Stitched together with nine 7D full res RAW captures with the 100-400. As usual the two ingredients which dominate all public events regardless of nation are: photographers + police, my two favorite subjects)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:45:33+0800
+ Dimensions: 28588 x 7480
+ Exposure: 1/320 sec at f/5.0
+ Focal Length: 235 mm
+ ISO: 800
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ Panorama FOV: 20 degree horizontal, 5 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Planar
+ GPS: 22°16'40" N 114°9'32" E
+ Location: 香港中環花園路26號美國總領事館 US Consulate General, 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.7D.42406-SML.20130615.7D.42414-Pano.Planar.20x5
+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
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Hundreds of protestors rally outside the Central Government Offices of Hong Kong yesterday, blowing whistles and shouting to support Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed to the public about the PRISM electronic surveillance program employed by the United States.
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# Workflow
I wish to show both the protestors in detail as well as the amount of public media surrounding them, so using my Canon EOS 6D affixed with the EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM and photographed handheld at 400 mm.
All in all, 73 RAW images were stitched together inside Autopano Giga 3.0 and output as Photoshop Large Document Format (PSB). Inside Photoshop I then create a vector mask to remove the edges. Since this was shot handheld, it was fairly difficult for me to make sure that I have had all the shots which I wanted.
I have been thinking of getting a robotic panoramic head for a while now but have not made a final decision between Gigapan EPIC Pro vs the Kolor Panogear. Both are fairly expensive. The other option I looked at as the Manfrotto pano head but since it was almost the same price as the robotic heads I thought that it makes more sense to go with robotics.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T17:23:42+0800
+ Dimensions: 43847 x 8367
+ Exposure: 1/200 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 400 mm
+ ISO: 12800
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ Panorama FOV: 45 degree horizontal, 10 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Planar
+ GPS: 22°16'52" N 114°9'58" E
+ Location: 香港政府總部(添馬艦) Central Government Complex, Tamar, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.6D.16150-SML.20130615.6D.16222-Pano.i73.Planar.45x10
+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
香港政府總部(添馬艦)前抗議 Protest outside Hong Kong SAR Central Government Complex, Tamar / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行全景 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden Panorama / SML.20130615.6D.16150-SML.20130615.6D.16222-Pano.i73.Planar.45x10
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Whichever way you look at it, Snowden betrayed the trust of his employer and ultimately his nation. If what he did was patriotic and a noble act worthy of praise, why would he go on the run?
An onlooker checks out a super long banner with the words: “Defend Democratic Values 真正「愛港者」桿衛民主價值” when protestors march on to the Consulate General of the United States from Chater Garden in Central, Hong Kong.
The Chinese sentence reads: the true lovers of Hong Kong would uphold the value of democracy.
(this pano is stitched with seven 7D RAW captures with the 100-400. As usual, I prefer to shoot panoramas so I can get the necessary resolution otherwise lost with a 17-40 + 6D, for example. The seams of the banner is not perfect as this is a time-variable shot. Also this is my first pano shot for photojournalism)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:45:33+0800
+ Dimensions: 13011 x 5281
+ Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/4.5
+ Focal Length: 100 mm
+ ISO: 250
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ Panorama FOV: 32 degree horizontal, 14 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Planar
+ GPS: 22°16'43" N 114°9'39" E
+ Location: 香港中環紅棉路 Cotton Tree Road, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.7D.42357-SML.20130615.7D.42363-Pano.Planar.32x14
+ Series: Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden (SnowdenHK), 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
極長橫額: 真正「愛港者」桿衛民主價值 Super Long Banner: Defend Demogratic Values / 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden (SnowdenHK) / SML.20130615.7D.42357-SML.20130615.7D.42363-Pano.Planar.32x14
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McPherson Square, Washington DC, July 4, 2013. Progressive and libertarian social justice activists unite in a rally to protest the Obama adminstration's wide ranging violations of constitutionally protected 4th amendment privacy rights and the persecution of whistle blowers. Speakers included Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and many others. My crowd estimate was around 300. Despite harping to the contrary by corporate media at the event (and "DC" lifestyle bloggers online before it even happened...), the rally was a wonderfully "fun" way to spend the 4th of July, right up there with the Bicentennial 'Moonie' fireworks extravaganza in my book. Thumbs up to the folks who organized this event.
An international roster of photojournalists stood by at the footbridge crossing Garden Road between Cheung Kong Centre and Bank of China Tower waiting for the rally to go underneath them.
Every time I go do photojournalism I would notice people trying to get a spot in the front. Actually the best vantage point is not down there—it’s up there. Grab a telephoto lens and start shooting.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:36:10+0800
+ Dimensions: 4690 x 3127
+ Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/5.0
+ Focal Length: 135 mm
+ ISO: 500
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°16'47" N 114°9'40" E
+ Location: 香港中環長江中心花園道行人天橋 Garden Road footbridge near Cheung Kong Centre, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SSML.20130615.7D.42276
+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism,
22°16'47" N 114°9'40" E
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
攝影記者 Photojournalists / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden / SML.20130615.7D.42298
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Here for the official YouTube 1080p version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWVGDBeR42I
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This is a short film based on the events of Edward Joseph Snowden, a former CIA and NSA employee who leaked a top secret mass surveillance programme from the US and UK.
We have never met or been in contact with Edward Joseph Snowden.
We are a band of independent and amateur filmmakers in Hong Kong who were both excited and puzzled as to why Snowden chose to come to Hong Kong. While nearly every media outlet wanted to get their hands on him, we decided to produce a short fictional video to depict his experience in HK, and how it would have affected certain parties: Namely, the CIA contingent based in HK who would be tasked to find Snowden. The Hong Kong Police who would be stuck in between the US and China. And the journalists who want to get the scoop.
The idea was hatched two days after he revealed his identity, and principal filming began on June 20th.
We were also filming on the same day (23rd) when we learned Snowden had left the city. Therefore we ramped up production efforts and published our short film 'Verax' on the 25th. 'Verax' was the alias Snowden used when contacting journalists via encrypted chat services, and means truth-teller in Latin.
I myself loved the idea of having Snowden here and the media frenzy it created. I really wanted to make a film based on such real-life news events, especially as it continues to develop. I also wanted to put something out there that is contrary and alternative to what we see in the mainstream media. With the technology we have today, filmmakers can really produce work at ridiculous speed. This project really tested our mettle especially when most of us had day jobs.
I myself highly respect Snowden for doing what he did, and the immense dangers and hardship he put himself through. I wouldn't call him a hero or a traitor (especially since I'm not American) just yet as his story is still continuing. Last update I heard here was that he did not board his supposed flight to Cuba and therefore is likely still in Russia. I was dismayed by his departure - not only because we were making this film - but because he seemed to have faith in our rule of law and I also wanted to see how our HK government would continue to fare due to all this pressure from the US.
To reiterate, we made this for fun and for the love of filmmaking. We had no commercial or political motives.
Directed and produced by
Jeff Floro (Junk Shot: www.junkshot.org)
Edwin Lee (Fallout Media: www.falloutmediahk.com)
Shawn Tse (Junk Shot)
Marcus Tsui (Immortal Peach: www.immortalpeach.com)
Associate producer
Cassandra Chan (Slate Takes: www.slatetakes.com)
Written by
Edwin Lee
Marcus Tsui
Directors of Photography
Edwin Lee
Jeff Floro
Edited by
Edwin Lee
Starring
Andrew Cromeek as Edward Snowden
Guo Aibing as Wu Xingwei
Edwin Chin as Security Wing officer Tsang Tak-long
Thomas Easterling as HK CIA Station Chief Carl Hamilton
Justin Lau as Security Wing officer Vincent Lee
Shi Yi Ng as Lecia Lau
Gabe Ostley as CIA Analyst Owen Fielding
Robert Hinson as HK CIA Operations Manager
Cindy Wong as Security Wing officer Vanessa Wu
Simon Zeng Hao as Ministry of State Security attaché
Music composed by
Gareth Coker (audiojungle)
Thomas Vo (audiojungle)
Special thanks
Christine Jagolino
Diane To
XKAREKROW
Geek talk:
Canon 5D Mark II and III
Zeiss 18mm, 28mm, 50mm, 85mm
Edelkrone rigs
For decades the not overly attractive pedestrian subway was the main access to Wuppertal's central station. Now that it is in the process of demolition (with the entire area being in redevelopment) I present some "farewell shots" of the unpleasant walkway and its shops.
Rally co-organizers Oiwan Lam (with mic) and Tom Grundy (with portable loudspeaker) lead several hundred Snowden supporters holding signs and banners as they marched towards US Consulate General on Saturday in Hong Kong.
# Oiwan Lam
Oiwan Lam is a media activist in Hong Kong. She writes for inmediahk.net, interlocals.net and globalvoicesonline.org
# Tom Grundy
Tom Grundy is a photographer, filmmaker and political activist in Hong Kong.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:41:40+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/250 sec at f/5.0
+ Focal Length: 170 mm
+ ISO: 1600
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°16'43" N 114°9'39" E
+ Location: 香港中環花園道 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.7D.42292
+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
Co-organizers Oiwan Lam + Tom Grundy / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden / SML.20130615.7D.42292
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Here is another panorama shot on Saturday when Edward Snowden supporters protest outside the Hong Kong SAR Central Government Complex.
Unlike the previous shot [1] which was shot at 400mm, this one is shot at 100mm, also handheld. I had originally intended to see if I would be able to stitch the 400mm shots together with the 100mm to get a giant pano with both detail in the people area as well as the context—the flags which designate the location with the flag of Hong Kong and China in the foreground. But alas I was unable to with available software.
But hopefully the two together provide you with comparable details. There was not a lot of available light on Saturday so zooming in will not provide as much detail as the 400mm shot.
The main challenge lies in using body as a robotic arm to cover the entire area. It is not as easy as you think—as in the past I have often missed many areas so for something which I cannot go back and rephotograph, I did overdo it a bit.
Stitched with 70 captures inside Autopano Giga 3.0 with some edits in Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4.
# Notes
1. 香港政府總部(添馬艦)前抗議 Protest outside Hong Kong SAR Central Government Complex, Tamar / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行全景 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden Panorama / SML: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9057436569/
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T17:16:28+0800
+ Dimensions: 13642 x 10455
+ Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/4.5
+ Focal Length: 100 mm
+ ISO: 1000
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ Panorama FOV: 69 degree horizontal, 41 degree vertical
+ Panoramic Projection: Planar
+ GPS: 22°16'52" N 114°9'59" E
+ Location: 香港政府總部(添馬艦) Central Government Complex, Tamar, Hong Kong SAR, China
+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3.0, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.6D.16066-SML.20130615.6D.16135-Pano.i70.Planar.69x41
+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
香港政府總部(添馬艦)前抗議全景 Protest outside Hong Kong SAR Central Government Complex Panorama / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden / SML.20130615.6D.16066-SML.20130615.6D.16135-Pano.i70.Planar.69x41
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/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #people #Rally #Snowden #EdwardSnowden #events #protest #US #NSA #PRISM
Keith Brian Alexander, aka General Alexander is an Army four-star general and serves Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA), Chief of the Central Security Service (CHCSS) and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
The source image for this caricature of Keith Alexander is a photo in the public domain from the U.S, Strategic Command.
Here for the official YouTube 1080p version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWVGDBeR42I
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This is a short film based on the events of Edward Joseph Snowden, a former CIA and NSA employee who leaked a top secret mass surveillance programme from the US and UK.
We have never met or been in contact with Edward Joseph Snowden.
We are a band of independent and amateur filmmakers in Hong Kong who were both excited and puzzled as to why Snowden chose to come to Hong Kong. While nearly every media outlet wanted to get their hands on him, we decided to produce a short fictional video to depict his experience in HK, and how it would have affected certain parties: Namely, the CIA contingent based in HK who would be tasked to find Snowden. The Hong Kong Police who would be stuck in between the US and China. And the journalists who want to get the scoop.
The idea was hatched two days after he revealed his identity, and principal filming began on June 20th.
We were also filming on the same day (23rd) when we learned Snowden had left the city. Therefore we ramped up production efforts and published our short film 'Verax' on the 25th. 'Verax' was the alias Snowden used when contacting journalists via encrypted chat services, and means truth-teller in Latin.
I myself loved the idea of having Snowden here and the media frenzy it created. I really wanted to make a film based on such real-life news events, especially as it continues to develop. I also wanted to put something out there that is contrary and alternative to what we see in the mainstream media. With the technology we have today, filmmakers can really produce work at ridiculous speed. This project really tested our mettle especially when most of us had day jobs.
I myself highly respect Snowden for doing what he did, and the immense dangers and hardship he put himself through. I wouldn't call him a hero or a traitor (especially since I'm not American) just yet as his story is still continuing. Last update I heard here was that he did not board his supposed flight to Cuba and therefore is likely still in Russia. I was dismayed by his departure - not only because we were making this film - but because he seemed to have faith in our rule of law and I also wanted to see how our HK government would continue to fare due to all this pressure from the US.
To reiterate, we made this for fun and for the love of filmmaking. We had no commercial or political motives.
Directed and produced by
Jeff Floro (Junk Shot: www.junkshot.org)
Edwin Lee (Fallout Media: www.falloutmediahk.com)
Shawn Tse (Junk Shot)
Marcus Tsui (Immortal Peach: www.immortalpeach.com)
Associate producer
Cassandra Chan (Slate Takes: www.slatetakes.com)
Written by
Edwin Lee
Marcus Tsui
Directors of Photography
Edwin Lee
Jeff Floro
Edited by
Edwin Lee
Starring
Andrew Cromeek as Edward Snowden
Guo Aibing as Wu Xingwei
Edwin Chin as Security Wing officer Tsang Tak-long
Thomas Easterling as HK CIA Station Chief Carl Hamilton
Justin Lau as Security Wing officer Vincent Lee
Shi Yi Ng as Lecia Lau
Gabe Ostley as CIA Analyst Owen Fielding
Robert Hinson as HK CIA Operations Manager
Cindy Wong as Security Wing officer Vanessa Wu
Simon Zeng Hao as Ministry of State Security attaché
Music composed by
Gareth Coker (audiojungle)
Thomas Vo (audiojungle)
Special thanks
Christine Jagolino
Diane To
XKAREKROW
Geek talk:
Canon 5D Mark II and III
Zeiss 18mm, 28mm, 50mm, 85mm
Edelkrone rigs
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Washington DC, Sunday May 11, 2014. Around twenty social justice activists associated with the Chelsea Manning support group rally in front of the White House in support of an unlikely presidential pardon for convicted whistleblower Chelsea Manning. On Thursday, April 10, 2014 Major General Jeffrey S. Buchanan rejected Manning's request for clemency. The only person who can now grant clemency is the President Of The United States. The Obama White House had declared that it will not even respond to Chelsea's request for clemency until all of her appeals are exhausted, a process which could take many years. On August 21, 2014 Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for releasing secret government documents to Wikileaks.