FlickR Tag: Occupy
Photos of occupy that were originally uploaded to FlickR
A familiar face from Occupy Calgary
The Heart of the Beast
Andrea Slobodian
You wanna picture…here’s your picture
This friendly guy is a cameraman with Sun News, a national cable broadcaster in Canada. He was annoyed that I took his picture, telling me I was not allowed to, despite being in a public place. After I persisted, he said something along the lines, that if I want a picture, then here's my picture. So, to him, I say thanks for the picture. Now, here's the long winded version:
Can you tell they’re camera shy?
Getting ready to take a shot
This is one of the photos I took at Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary on Friday, December 9, 2011. I came a couple hours in advance of the 2pm deadline for Occupy Calgary campers to leave. To my surprise, the tents were gone. I found since, the occupiers removed everything overnight, and left behind some signs and a new sculpture.
Merry Christmas in the OP
I found a few pieces of what I assume was a display set here. They were lying separate and I put them together for this photo. This photo can use some fixing. There's some blue in the snow that I need to remove. I tried using a "White Balance" spot fix, but I didn't really have a proper reference point. So, I just need to de-saturate the snow separately. But, I posted it now, because I still like it. It's probably my favorite shot of the day.
Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin
From the quick look I had, the Occupy Calgary at Olympic Plaza did pretty well. I didn't see any obvious damage from the wind. The tents, as you can see, are standing. Although, I'm sure they must have some difficulties. I did have a slightly unpleasant circumstance, since one lady was complaining about pictures being taken by me. She didn't bother saying anything to me directly, and another person said people are free to take pictures. No big deal. Just a bit annoying, when people demonstrate in public to get attention, but don't like the attention (again, this was just one person, so nothing relevant to the group as a whole).
Chief of Police Rick Hanson
Light in the background
This was taken at a media scrum, held by Bill Bruce, head of Animal & Bylaw Services for Calgary. The person seen here (who was snapping a picture of Bruce) is one of the protesters and campers from the Olympic Plaza camp. There were a couple questions asked by the protesters (not really answered) and after Bruce answered questions, three of the protesters held their own scrum.
