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The tree and its trees frame the girl in this image. She was by herself, revising, in the Royal Fort Gardens. I wanted to give her some privacy - so I framed her with the tree. A slight vignette was added to direct the viewer to the center of the frame, while I burned the foliage in the middle of the frame to give a higher contrast to the subject.
Being a city of course there are going to be lots of CCTV cameras around London. But soon is it going to get to the extent of a camera being absolutely everywhere, watching, spying on society? The cameras have their use when it comes to crime, but its also as if there is a "big brother", the higher authority, watching over peoples lives, the lives of people who have the right, to not have their lives spied upon.
"There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed...
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." George Orwell, 1984.