Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I photograph the SF Pride a few times. Unfortunately this year I will be away. On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/Philly+Pride+Parade+06+12+16+sm.jpg.html >> >> >> >> Bronica S2, Zenzanon 150/3.5, Arista EDU100 at 200 >> >> >> >> Jim Shulman >> >> Wynnewood, PA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // On Facebook: http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // On Instagram: https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto