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After visiting the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest gathering in Zuccotti Park last week (which you can see in this Flickr site), I thought I would have a good idea of what to expect when I decided to visit the Occupy Los Angeles gathering outside City Hall in Los Angeles early Saturday morning. And to some extent, I was right: the protest was still focused on the excesses of the richest and most powerful 1% of the population, as well as corruption and paralysis in Washington.

But New York and Los Angeles are obviously on opposite sides of the country -- and in some respects, the two protests were completely different. It was already pleasantly warm when I showed up at 8:30 in the morning, and the previous evening had been seasonably mild; by contrast, it wet and freezing cold in New York City, with the earliest snow-fall in over 150 years making life somewhat miserable for the hundreds of shivering protesters who squatted under a long blue tarp that had been stretched over the food kitchen.

The mild weather may explain the first visible difference that I saw between the two "occupy" gatherings: there were many more tents in Los Angeles, each one seeming to hold three or four people who were just beginning to poke their heads out, sniffing the air for the presence of coffee or food that they could use to break their overnight fast. There was no need for heavy coats or hats or mittens; all I saw in Los Angeles was a few sweaters and light jackets. A visitor to my Flickr site jokingly asked why I had not photographed one of the (female) protesters in a topless outfit, and why none of the people were nude. Well, if that was going to happen, it would have happened in Los Angeles, not New York; and as for Los Angeles, the most extreme clothing I saw was one woman wearing a fairly un-revealing bikini top. Hardly the stuff of Woodstock; so much for the idea of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll at these gatherings.

Speaking of rock-n-roll: there was none. But in Los Angeles, there were a lot more people with guitars. And mandolins, and fiddles, and even someone with a flute. Some of them played quietly, for their own amusement; but several of them drifted together beneath a statue that led up the stairs to the front entrance of City Hall, and jammed extemporaneously, with several simple, but enjoyable songs. I video-recorded several of these musical efforts, and I'll combine all of them together into a "composite" music-video on YouTube.

Another difference between Los Angeles and New YOrk involved the presence of cameras. Quite simply, there were many more in New York, and while I did not see any major-media journalists or reporters, there did seem to be a number of quasi-professional independent journalists who were not only photographing and recording everything they could see, but also interviewing everyone who looked interesting. Not so, in Los Angeles; yes, there were a few people with video cameras and DSLR still cameras (including me), but I only saw one or two interviews taking place. Ironically, I was one of the people interviewed: an earnest young man told me he was taking a class that required him to interview photographers at the protest gathering, and he wanted to know what I thought of the whole scene.

So I told him, in a summary fashion, what I had already written in the notes accompanying my OWS Flickr set, and I told him that I thought the Los Angeles gathering was quieter, with less energy, and more people just wandering around somewhat aimlessly. There were no speeches, there was no shouting, and there was almost no police presence. I did see two cops standing at the top of the stairs leading to the front entrance of of City Hall, but they vanished about half an hour after I arrived.

One last note, which may strike some readers as biased or unfair -- but I saw what I saw: several people wandered down the various sidewalks leading out of City Hall Park ... and then returned via the same sidewalks, ten or fifteen minutes later, carrying a large cup of Starbucks coffee. The revolution, it seems, runs on Starbucks.

That's when I began focusing on the clothing worn by the protesters. As noted above, it was obviously much warmer than it was in New York City, so perhaps I should not have been surprised to see half a dozen or more people wandering around barefoot. But the other thing that struck me was how carefully several of the people were dressed, and how much attention they seemed to have spent to make their physical appearance look appropriately fashionable, while simultaneously being disheveled and hippy. Like I said, I might be biased: you can look at the pictures and judge for yourself.

I spent more time here than I did in New York -- roughly three hours before I decided that I had seen everything there was to see. But as a result, I got a lot more pictures - some 700+ still pictures, and a dozen video clips. I've winnowed it down, as best I could, to 200 keepers. Enjoy!

The Roaming Reporter ... by junepurkiss

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She stopped us for a chat and to ask us questions in relation to a survey she was undertaking on behalf of a magazine ... I asked if she would mind if I took her photo and she kindly agreed. I loved the connection between the blue in her headscarf and her headphones ... This photo was taken some time in 2017 so I have no idea about why Flickr is showing December 2012 ...

Early morning light by Gary Marshall

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<<Ms. Reporter>> by Jerry Bei

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Leica M + Leica Summilux 50mm F1.4 Black Paint

" CEAGESP - Feira Livre SP / (fruit and vegetable market) " by Wilson Houck Jr (whouck)

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São Paulo - Brasil

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reporter by carlos

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Reporter Photographe Professionnelle by valerie burey

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" Galinhada / (rustic chicken) " by Wilson Houck Jr (whouck)

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Galinhada, prato típico da culinária mineira, consiste basicamente na junção de arroz e frango em pedaços cozido. O sabor especial fica por conta do açafrão, que colore e perfuma a galinhada, dando um toque diferente... (anamaria receitas)

mais imagens: Álbum Foto-Repórter =>

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mais imagens: google-panoramio =>

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Sposi Reporters by Bassano Sposi Reporters

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DIGITANALOGICAL REPORTER by Marzetti Gianfranco

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Tribute to''REPORTER'S DAY-PHOTOGRAPHY'' by Estevam Cesar

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Through photojournalism, photography can display all his ability to convey information. This information is provided by the simple framework chosen by the photographer before the fact. In printed communications such as newspapers and magazines as well as through the portals on the Internet, the endorsement of information through photography is a constant.

The photograph in the media is very important as a source of information. Presently, news reports are poor without the presence of the photograph.

The black and white photograph published in newspapers, there is more than one hundred years and is a feature of photojournalism. Although, color photography has gained ground in this category in the early 70s with magazines such as Look and Read (Brazilian magazine).

Some genres of journalistic photography can be highlighted:

Social photo: This category included the photo policy, economics and business, and pictures of events of general facts of city, state and country, including a photograph of tragedy.

Sports photography: In this category, usually the amount of information is more important and what affects their publication.

Cultural photography: This type of photography usually draw attention to the news before it is read;

Police photography: Category images associated with combat, or arrest and police repression, crimes, killings. This type of photography, often gets highlighted in its publication, which causes the most varied reactions to the facts.

Technique: - With the passage of time the photo-reporters develop what we call peripheral vision, a greater degree of visão.Os degrees of vision of the reporter increased by having to care for distant and near, clear example of this is football, where both ends are used.

O fotojornalismo é um ramo da Fotografia onde a informação clara e objetiva, através da imagem fotográfica, é imprescindível.

Através do fotojornalismo, a fotografia pode exibir toda a sua capacidade de transmitir informações. Essas informações são transmitidas pelo simples enquadramento escolhido pelo fotógrafo diante do fato. Nas comunicações impressas, como jornais e revistas, bem como pelos portais na internet, o endosso da informação através da fotografia é uma constante.

A fotografia nos meios de comunicação é muito importante como uma fonte de informação. Atualmente, matérias jornalísticas ficam pobres sem a presença da fotografia.

A fotografia em preto e branco publicada em jornais, existe há mais de cem anos e é uma das características do fotojornalismo. Embora, a fotografia colorida tenha ganhado espaço nessa categoria, no início dos anos 70 com as revistas semanais como Veja e Leia (revistas brasileiras).

Alguns gêneros de fotografia jornalística podem ser destacados:

Fotografia social: Nesta categoria estão incluídas a fotografia política, de economia e negócios e as fotografias de fatos gerais dos acontecimentos da cidade, do estado e do país, incluindo a fotografia de tragédia.

Fotografia esportiva: Nessa categoria, normalmente a quantidade de informações é mais importante e o que influi na sua publicação.

Fotografia cultural: Este tipo de fotografia costuma chamar a atenção para a notícia antes dela ser lida;

Fotografia policial: Categoria associada a imagens de combate, apreensão e ou repressão policial, crimes, mortes. Este tipo de fotografia, muitas vezes, recebe destaque na sua publicação, o que provoca as mais variadas reações diante dos fatos.

Técnica:- Com o passar dos tempos os repórteres-fotográficos desenvolvem o que podemos chamar de visão periférica, uma graduação maior de visão.Os graus de visão do repórter aumentam por ter que cuidar à distancia e próximo, exemplo claro disso é o futebol, onde ambos extremos são utilizados.

dag18-reporter by zukzuk785

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SGUARDO AL REPORTER by Marzetti Gianfranco

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Observer Reporter by Dave Williams

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Washington, Pennsylvania