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Title: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Rick Waldroup on January 23, 2017, 15:44:56
Women's March For Unity - Fort Worth, Texas - January 21, 2017

The day after the inauguration of Donald Trump, dozens of protest marches were held across the United States.  There were also numerous unity marches and rallies around the world.

The organizers of this event were hoping for a crowd of a couple of thousand people.  By the end of the march, the crowd was estimated at about 10,000.

To view the entire set of photos, go here http://www.rickwphotography.com/p563040296#h82063d3d (http://www.rickwphotography.com/p563040296#h82063d3d)


1.

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s3/v42/p2181447719-5.jpg)


2.

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s1/v5/p2181446978-5.jpg)


3.

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s10/v110/p2181447542-5.jpg)


4.  A few Trump supporters were at the march.  Many protesters flashed him the peace sign and several asked him to join the march.  He told them to "fuck off".

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s7/v161/p2181448803-5.jpg)


5.

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s7/v155/p2181448793-5.jpg)


6.

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s9/v94/p2181447801-5.jpg)


7.  At the end of the march

(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s1/v5/p2181449475-5.jpg)
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: basker on January 23, 2017, 16:33:04
Rick,

Fine work and worthwhile. Thank you for you showing this.

Sam
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 23, 2017, 16:52:33
A worthy documentation of a remarkable event.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Anirban Halder on January 23, 2017, 18:31:05
True PJ style and fine photography, Rick.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Akira on January 23, 2017, 18:36:47
Both qualities of images and selection together make this series special.  Thanks for sharing, Rick!
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: armando_m on January 23, 2017, 21:13:06
Nice to see this series of images
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: golunvolo on January 23, 2017, 21:26:21
Excellent job Rick. I like your way of juxtaposition -I´m quite sure that´s the word I´m looking for- You presented many sides and emotions.



 
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Rick Waldroup on January 23, 2017, 22:31:02
I want to thank everyone who took the time to view the images and for leaving comments.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Erik Lund on January 23, 2017, 22:38:01
Very clean looking, deviating from your usual style a bit,,,
Very high quality PJ street series!
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: MILLIREHM on January 23, 2017, 22:40:17
A good event to document
And fine that you did the series in Black&White Rick.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: BEZ on January 23, 2017, 22:59:30
Stunning work as usual ...the images seem to have a little extra tonal smoothness which looks nice.

Thank you for sharing here!

Cheers
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: stenrasmussen on January 23, 2017, 23:32:44
Good, honest event and documentation Rick. Thanks for this - most appreciated.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: John Geerts on January 23, 2017, 23:59:18
Excellent documentary series, Rick.  With #5 and #7 as my favourites (the expression of the faces).
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Andrea B. on January 27, 2017, 18:36:30
All political commentary has been placed here:  http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,5334.0.html
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: MFloyd on January 27, 2017, 19:30:25
You should have kept this thread closed. The pictures have modest documentary or pictural quality, anyway, and by next week, everybody would have forgotten about this.  By attempting to sanitize everything, you are making it only worse.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Andrea B. on January 27, 2017, 20:20:38
You should have kept this thread closed. The pictures have modest documentary or pictural quality, anyway, and by next week, everybody would have forgotten about this.  By attempting to sanitize everything, you are making it only worse.

We volunteer to run this website and we do the best we can.

Christian, what exactly is the outcome which would please you? Where precisely do we draw the line? Can you make up an enforceable "rule" which works in every case?

And then -- why in the world has this topic upset you so much? Of the thousands of members here, we have had only 3 who want to complain about this thread*. Is it really necessary to do that? Can't you just walk away from what you do not like? There is so much here on NG to enjoy.


*...but more than that who have complained about the complainers. It gets very absurd.

If we move political posts to the Back Storage, we get complaints.
If we leave political posts in the thread, we get complaints.
Would you call this a no-win situation for NikonGear?
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Akira on January 27, 2017, 20:25:29
Now I'm very happy that this otherwise excellent thread is now cleaned up!

Nice job moderators and administrators!
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: DougB on January 27, 2017, 21:41:08
Rick - excellent set of B&Ws

To those who do not like these or think they are "political" then post your set of photos that suit YOUR political thoughts!
These are just photos & should be judged as such.
If something "bothers you" to look at, then DON'T LOOK AT THEM
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: BW on January 27, 2017, 22:02:01
A newsworthy social documentary, Rick. Keep them coming and dont mind the people who want to gag your photography. It is only a proof that your pictures make an impact. Who the hell want to stay neutral all the time and what progress comes out of that?
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Mongo on January 28, 2017, 11:31:25
Mongo repeats:-

"……….. One of our members contributes what Mongo thinks is an excellent set of photojournalist quality images capturing a particular event ………… Mongo thinks he has done a very fine job and glad he posted his photo work. ………"
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Thomas Stellwag on January 28, 2017, 11:58:24
excellent documentation  -  as most what I´ve seen from you - thank you Rick

something I like very much in your style is, that looking at the images, I can 
imagine them "dotted" on front of a newspaper, as well as fine printed  behind glass
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Rick Waldroup on January 28, 2017, 18:55:30
I want to thank everyone for viewing the photos and leaving comments.
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: RBSinTo on January 28, 2017, 20:00:57
Rick,
Excellent work as usual. Your Documentary and PJ photography always resonates with me.
And kudos to Nikongear for permitting Political content. We who post here are very fortunate that freedom of expression is allowed.
This thread would have been deleted in Pico-seconds by the Moderators at Nikoncafe for example.
Robert
Title: Re: Women's March For Unity
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 28, 2017, 20:18:49
To be precise: on NG, there is no prohibition of posting what some would designate 'political' photos. However, what we will not allow is an off-topic discussion going into politics on any scale, local, national, or global. For the latter purposes, more appropriate sites exist.