Mike McGregors photo account's blog

Here are some of the group photos I took Sunday after the event. There's three versions photos here, just incase you blinked... They are cropped at 8x10, 150dpi. If any one needs a higher resolution, I can scan it again for you. To download them click on the image, then on the next page 'right click/save as'.

My other pictures from the weekend are available here:

• SOA 2007
• SOA 2007: Dance Dance ¡Revolución!

• SOA 2007: Vigil

• SOA 2007: Tear Down

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After the event was done, It took all of about five minuets for the fence spanning the entrance of Fort Benning, and every thing on it, to be unceremoniously taken down and thrown in the back of waiting dump trucks. All this happened after the Police had cleared everyone away from the gate, marvelled at the hard work put into some of the items on the fence, took some souvenirs and snap shots and cracked some jokes. For the most part, the uniformed Columbus Police officers were pretty respectful in they're own peculiar way of what the tear down meant to people who had participated in the vigil. The MPs form Fort Benning and the plain clothes officers milling about on the other hand weren't as considerate... In the scene from the first photo, One MP (just visible in the background) joked, in regards to to a string of paper cranes that one of the Columbus officer took notice of, something to the effect of 'mental patients have to make those if they want to get fed', While a plane clothes officer grabbed an inflatable mannequin as another commented about how he had found a date. The guy who seemed to be in charge (in the white shirt) seemed to conduct himself with a particular air of subtle dickishness....

 

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These are just some photos that didn't fit into any of the other batches.

 

 

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These are photos from the Vigil on Sunday.

 

 

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Here's some pics from the celebration portion of the SOA weekend:

 

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Here's some photos from Wednesday's Anti-Poverty rally on Queen's Park in T.O. I joined the march originating from Metro Park at Queen and Church streets, which was joined be two or three other marches (I think there were five marches all together) while it snaked its way through downtown before eventually converging on the lawn of the Legislature. I'm no expert at crowd estimates, but I'd guess there were about 600-800 people out through the scattered showers that came down.

The Police presence was limited to a few dozen officers, some on bikes which escorted the march, some on horseback which were at Queens park flanking the main entrance to the Legislature when we arrived and some on foot in a diffuse line in front of the main entrance. The marchers didn't seem to pay them much mind and the police didn't make much of an effort to interfere with the march. One exception being when the police tried to nudge the march onto the sidewalk by blocking the road with their bikes, but the plan was thwarted when the march simply stopped and waited for them to move...  read more »

The 80-200mm f/2.8D ED AF Zoom-Nikkor I "won" on eBay just arrived. w00t! Now I can finally retire my old zoom lense that was really too slow to be useful. (slow, in that it dosen't let enough light in).

My new lense is just like this one:

Yea, it's pretty phallic... But with camera optics, more phallic seems to equel better, and I'm OK with that.  read more »

I'm still scanning in old negatives. This is one from one of my assignments during my photojournalism course at Loyalist. We were sent out to take 'abstract' photos and this is some of what I came back with.

 

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I've been going through some of my old negatives and scanning some of my favourites that never made it to a scanner for one reason or another.

These ones are from an Anti-war rally that occurred a few days after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. These are pictures that I missed the first time I scanned these rolls or thought I couldn't get a decent picture out of...

 

Around the US consulate, things got a little ruckus, with mud, snowballs, bottles, etc, being thrown at the police who had erected a barricade of crowd control fences across the narrow street in front of the building (rue Saint-Alexandre I think?).  read more »

Here's the pics I shot this past Saturday in Toronto at the demonstration marking the 4th anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq. The event started in front of the University Courthouse, across University Ave from the U.S. Consulate. Then the march left for Nathan Phillips Square.

 

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