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Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty, a photo essay

by Tris Hussey on October 15, 2008 · 6 comments

in Social Media

Fitting that after last night’s Net Tuesday on social media for change, that today is blog action day and that the topic is poverty.
I had already decided to do my post as a photo essay. This is my first photo essay, and I’m mostly happy with it.
Anyway, what I was thinking is that we often only think of poverty as being something in “some sections” of town, but really it’s everywhere. Since I moved to Vancouver in late July I’ve been more keenly aware of poverty. Not just in the [...]

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Over the weekend I went to Seattle for a little shopping and while Sheila was browsing bead stores (she makes amazing jewelry), I took pictures around the stores. At our last stop I was playing with small apertures for some landscapes (f/16 to be exact). I wasn’t really getting what I was looking for so after shooting a few other things, I decided to take a picture of an interesting light pole on the street and got this:

Well “wow” was the next thing out of my mouth.
I have been playing [...]

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