[Leica] A Photograph and a few comments about Orlando and the Philly Gay Pride Parade

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Jim, that is a very nice photo, of both the parade and the memory of 
those families who are still searching and hurting in Orlando. It is one 
of your best, most thought-provoking images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 6/12/2016 9:08 PM, Jim Shulman wrote:
> Today I did about the only thing I could do in light of Orlando: dusted off
> my culottes, packed a dozen rolls of film along with my Bronica S2,  and
> marched in the Philly Gay Pride Parade?exactly as I?ve done every year
> since '79 (my feet ached less then, though I was also several stone
> lighter.) The purpose of terrorism is to get people to panic and hide,
> which I refuse to do (Including when I walked around Boston the day of the
> dragnet/shutdown.)  After a Facebook friend put out one of those fatuous
> "be alert and be safe" notes (of course, from some aerie far from the
> streets), I said that fearing attack the day after Orlando is like one of
> those irrational snowstorm warnings that come immediately AFTER every major
> snowstorm. The best place to be is out on the street?and ironically, after
> a mass shooting one of the safest, since the streets were packed with
> police, and I?m sure no shortage of plainclothes FBI personnel.  I?ve lived
> long enough to remember the Upstairs Lounge arson attack in ?73, Dan
> White?s rampage in ?78, and God knows how many shootings, stabbings, and
> other horrors since.  Still here, still marching?next in NYC, Baltimore,
> and many other spots where fine homosexuals are served.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/Philly+Pride+Parade+06+12+16+sm.jpg.html
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> Bronica S2, Zenzanon 150/3.5, Arista EDU100 at 200
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> Jim Shulman
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> Wynnewood, PA
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