What's been keeping me occupied lately...
I've finally, after talking about it for months... years .... decades... been working hard to overcome my inate shyness and jam my camera in people's faces in public. For years I saw things I wanted to shoot and couldn't lift the camera. Now, I force myself to.
And, surprise surprise, thus far the sky hasn't fallen, people haven't generally been confrontational, and I've started to get a bit more comfortable with the whole process. It still feels weird though....
And, after back-to-back protests on the Hill of the Sikhs still looking for some accountability for the '84 massacre. and the Tibetans wanting China out of this country, I have come to the inescapable conculsion that us Euro-derived North Americans need to step it up in the "colourfull" department.
The Sikhs especially know how to plan a protest - complete with wheeling up a complete mobile kitchen onto the fron lawn of Parliament from which the most wonderfull aromas of safron and various curries emanated.
Yes, I had seconds - plus a wonderfull chat with the old man in the B&W protest to try and understand the precepts of Sikhism a bit better. There are so many cultures in this world, and every time I learn a bit more about one - it is like learning to see the world in a new way. Plus, without understaning you cannot have empathy for others. At best, you can have sympathy - which is not exactly the same thing.
And, surprise surprise, thus far the sky hasn't fallen, people haven't generally been confrontational, and I've started to get a bit more comfortable with the whole process. It still feels weird though....
And, after back-to-back protests on the Hill of the Sikhs still looking for some accountability for the '84 massacre. and the Tibetans wanting China out of this country, I have come to the inescapable conculsion that us Euro-derived North Americans need to step it up in the "colourfull" department.
The Sikhs especially know how to plan a protest - complete with wheeling up a complete mobile kitchen onto the fron lawn of Parliament from which the most wonderfull aromas of safron and various curries emanated.
Yes, I had seconds - plus a wonderfull chat with the old man in the B&W protest to try and understand the precepts of Sikhism a bit better. There are so many cultures in this world, and every time I learn a bit more about one - it is like learning to see the world in a new way. Plus, without understaning you cannot have empathy for others. At best, you can have sympathy - which is not exactly the same thing.