CND Aldermaston March – On Easter Monday twelfth April 2004 I walked from Studying to Aldermaston in a protest towards the following era of nuclear weapons organised by CND, the Aldermaston Girls’s Peace Camp and Slough4Peace. Because the unique march in 1958 the risks of nuclear weapons have proliferated and we have now seen many extra years of lies and deception dressed up as safety and nationwide curiosity.
I hadn’t marched all the way in which from London although I had gone to the Trafalgar Sq. ‘No New Nukes’ Rally earlier than the march on Friday ninth April and had walked with them tas far as Kensington. I had different enterprise on the Saturday, however on Sunday eleventh I cycled to satisfy the march at Maidenhead and walked the following 4 miles with them to their lunch cease at Knowl Hill earlier than strolling again to Maidenhead to choose up my bike and cycle residence.
I used to be up early on Easter Monday to catch a prepare to Studying with my spouse and elder son the place we joined the marchers who had spent the night time in Studying as they had been about to set off.
I’d spent the earlier 3 days strolling round ten miles a day carrying a heavy digicam bag, and the burden of a Nikon with a stable lens spherical my neck was attending to be an excessive amount of for me. I felt I couldn’t do one other day with a minimum of 12 miles carrying this load. So unusually my solely photographic gear for the day was a tiny Canon Digital Ixus 400, a 4Mp digicam weighing round 230 grams.
It typically did an excellent job, although the 2272 x 1704 pixel recordsdata had been a bit of smaller than ordinary, and it solely gave jpeg recordsdata relatively than the RAW I usually used permitting a lot much less post-processing. Regardless of having a sensor lower than a tenth the realm of my Nikon DX digicam it was exhausting to inform a distinction within the high quality of the end result. In fact I used to be taking footage in good daylight – and below extra taxing circumstances the Nikon uncooked recordsdata would have been streets forward. The entire footage on this publish had been made with the Canon Ixus.
The principle limitation of the Ixus was its generally very gradual focus. The pause between urgent the shutter button and the digicam really taking an image might generally be very lengthy. Typically so lengthy that I’d really put the digicam down earlier than the publicity, and in addition to the photographs it made I additionally returned residence with fairly a couple of footage of random patches of street and grass from Berkshire.
However we walked all the way in which, with a cease at AWE Burghfield, the UK’s nuclear bomb manufacturing unit after which on the Aldermaston, the place we additionally walked midway across the perimeter fence earlier than getting a raise to the station.
You possibly can see footage from Friday’s rally and the march on Sunday on My London Diary in addition to many extra footage from Easter Monday.
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