Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After the vote on Friday in Ireland on the Woman's Right to Choose/Abortion referendum, I went in the following day to the Dublin City count centre in the RDS (the Royal Dublin Society) to see the count, and take pictures of the hordes of political wonks (OK, I'm one too) that assemble there. As my cousin is the City Sheriff and Official Returning Officer for Dublin city, at least I had no trouble in getting one of the limited tickets. There are loads of people shots here, and I used the Sony A7ii with kit 28-70 lens and my new Nissin i40 flash. That said, I still had to do a bit of post shot manipulation in PSE as they looked a bit bright due to my lack of practice with the flash beforehand. To the surprise of both sides, the vote was an overwhelming Yes to pass the amendment by 66.4% to 33.6%. Management of abortion here will now rest with Oireachteas (Irish parliament) and they will have to pass legislation over the coming months to clarify the legal position of abortion here. However, it appears that it will be permitted up to twelve weeks. Here are 40 shots of the activity in the RDS which was packed with Irish politicians, and the world's and the Irish media. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/politics/Referendum+May+2018/Count+Cantre+RDS/ All can be seen LARGE. Comments and criticism welcome. Douglas ps I've done a separate link to the the poster pictures I put up earlier, so the link in the old message is dead. Here is the new one. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/politics/Referendum+May+2018/Posters+leaflets+etc/