Occupy St paul's anti capitalist demo

Really interesting pictures. I spent several minutes poring over each. I like the different processing styles but probably the gritty B & W the most. That last shot is wonderful :)
 
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Nice images, you really captured the moment. You have a talent for images and have some nice ones here.


Warning: Soap Box Moment ahead

While I understand the frustration people have, capitalism gives us the toys we all love.

We could be stuck driving crappy cars:

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Still using rotary telephones:

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And still staring at green print on our computers:

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Just saying. Capitalisim is not a perfect system and plenty abuse it, but it is the best there is at the moment. It allows people like Bill Gates to rise and become the giants they are/were.

Getting off of soap box now.
 
Very nice as usual Pete. Were these taken before you got the GRD4, or are you still shooting with both?

-Ray
Hi Ray. These were done with the GRD3. I have not considered the 4th in the line as yet. I am toying with the idea of an X10 as well as keeping the GF2. I have tried shooting the Panny from the hip and it is much easier for me to control. Bearing in mind I cut my teeth in street shooting on the GF2 I am fond of it.

Thanks for the comment, as usual your encouragement is appreciated.
 
Really interesting pictures. I spent several minutes poring over each. I like the different processing styles but probably the gritty B & W the most. That last shot is wonderful :)

Thank you too, Christilou. Nice of you to take time to look over them, glad you like them

Cheers

Peter.
 
I just threw out some of those disks recently. No clue what was on them, no computer here that could load them! Next will be the 3.5-in...:D

I saw an ITT ad on TV the other day about how they teach the latest and greatest in technology. And they flash a clip of someone pulling a 5 1/4" floppy out of a drive!! Hilarious!
 
Was that an AMC Pacer I saw there? Ugly, ugly, ugly. I remember a local publican having one in the 70's.

My mom had one, it caought fire. I thought it was the coolest car because of the massive windows. She has much different memories.

Just for the record, I was posting photo's of a demo and the interesting characters within. I don't own a soap box, I mind my own bees wax. I just wanna shoot pic'chas.

They are some nice shots, show a lot of the feeling behind the individuals.
 
I just threw out some of those disks recently. No clue what was on them, no computer here that could load them! Next will be the 3.5-in...:D

I saw an ITT ad on TV the other day about how they teach the latest and greatest in technology. And they flash a clip of someone pulling a 5 1/4" floppy out of a drive!! Hilarious!

I remember the first computer my father bought. he was so proud as it had both floppy and 3.5 diskette. I too just found a bunch of 3.5 disckettes, no way of using them.
 
I saw an ITT ad on TV the other day about how they teach the latest and greatest in technology. And they flash a clip of someone pulling a 5 1/4" floppy out of a drive!! Hilarious!

Yeah, but I remember all too well when the pocket calculator seemed every bit as amazing as an iphone does today, let alone when the 5 1/4" floppy seemed like an absolute miracle of miniaturization. I'll never forget the first time I saw an Apple IIe run a spreadsheet - unbelievable! Man, now I have a zillion times more computing power in my pocket that that whole desk full of gear and I nearly take it for granted...

-Ray
 
Yeah, but I remember all too well when the pocket calculator seemed every bit as amazing as an iphone does today, let alone when the 5 1/4" floppy seemed like an absolute miracle of miniaturization. I'll never forget the first time I saw an Apple IIe run a spreadsheet - unbelievable! Man, now I have a zillion times more computing power in my pocket that that whole desk full of gear and I nearly take it for granted...

-Ray

Ever think about stepping into a time machine with your iPhone? It'll be like that book about the Yankee in King Arthur's court. Until you run out of battery for the iPhone that is!

ps: To the OP, sorry for hijacking the thread. I'll stop now! :)
 
Yeah, but I remember all too well when the pocket calculator seemed every bit as amazing as an iphone does today, let alone when the 5 1/4" floppy seemed like an absolute miracle of miniaturization. I'll never forget the first time I saw an Apple IIe run a spreadsheet - unbelievable! Man, now I have a zillion times more computing power in my pocket that that whole desk full of gear and I nearly take it for granted...

-Ray

The groundbreaking pocket scientific calculator - the HP-35 - sold for $395 when introduced in 1972. That's over $2100 in current dollars. That calculator's capabilities are found today in units costing under 3% of that.... Unbelievable is right!!
 
Is this a thread about capitalism or about photos of a protest? I saw it as the latter.

-Ray

I believe it's about photos or should be.. and the last one I think is my favorite for it's processing Petach, though the top one with the old man holding the banner is cooly apocalyptic.
 
The groundbreaking pocket scientific calculator - the HP-35 - sold for $395 when introduced in 1972. That's over $2100 in current dollars. That calculator's capabilities are found today in units costing under 3% of that.... Unbelievable is right!!

I was 13 and I'll never forget how overwhelmed my Dad was by it. I think he saw the whole future laid out before us when that showed up - like he intuitively got what the technology had achieved and how much more would be coming down that same pike. I think he waited until the price came down to about $100 to actually buy one, and $100 in THOSE days was a lot more than $100 today. By the time I was in college a few years later, the cheap pocket calculator was ubiquitous, but the really powerful scientific calculators were still pretty pricey. Then a few years later, personal computers. Amazing. And my kids, who are young adults now, never knew a time before PCs. Of course I never knew a time without light switches and indoor plumbing and cars EVERYwhere, and my grandparents experienced all of those thing as kids, so I guess its all relative.

-Ray
 
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