Passionate about our NHS

Today I went to Cambridge in order to do some of my usual street photography, instead of heading off to the city centre we wandered along Mill Road.

It was there I came across this woman. I did the usual snap before she spotted me. I stopped and spoke to her for a while, asked her if there was a demo anywhere, it was then she told me that she was a one woman crusade.

Save our NHS

This woman feels so strongly that she wears that placard all the time (except for in the shower and in bed.) She has spoken to GPs who tell her that they expect the mortality rate to go up if this bill goes through.

She also suggested I check out the adopt a peer website http://goingtowork.org.uk/peers/ which I intend to do. I take my hat off to her, she is doing what she can, something we all must do, there's not much time left.

Unfortunately I didn't get her name, but this is how passionately people are about saving our NHS from the reforms the ConDem government want to impose on us. Take note Cameron, Lansley and Clegg, this woman speaks for us all.

Thanks to "Private This" who left a comment below regarding a national rally. Let's all sign up for Bevan's March and make sure this woman does not stand alone. http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/2634311-organise-a-huge-march-against-the-health-social

Sometimes people spot what you are doing

As most folk who follow this blog know my preferred genre is street photography, I'm often asked "do people spot you taking their photo?" The answer to that is "not often".

It's surprising how often people are unaware of what goes on around them. However it does sometime happen and sometimes that in itself makes for a great photo. The following is a photo from a fellow street photographer Stentionhouse (also known as Funkdooby) and is used with his permission.

Two Clocks by Stentionhouse @72dpi.com

What's the Best photo sharing site?

Obviously this view is just personal opinion. I take a lot of photos, my family get bored with looking at them, so instead of boring my family I need somewhere to upload my photos in order to bore my online friends.

Seriously though, I've made lots of friends on the internet some of whom are very fine photographers indeed, I show them mine and they show me theirs

For quite a while I uploaded to Flickr, it was here that I met some of the great photographer's mentioned above. See here as to why Flickr didn't cut the mustard.

Then I found 500px.com For a while it was OK, nice layout, nice scoring system except for its dislike button. See here for why 500px also eventually went by the by.

So where am I now? I am at http://www.72dpi.com
So far I like very much what I'm seeing there. On the whole it's a good community. Photographers of all abilities mix happily there from beginner to professional. Most of all the admins encourage discussion about the site and actually listen to their members. They have made many improvements in the short time I've there and all based on member feedback. This is how to run a photo site and the aforementioned others could learn a thing or two from http://www.72dpi.com/