Sunday, March 01, 2009

Palace to Protest

I headed downtown near City Hall today to get some shots of the changing of the guard and just some random shots near the stream. Well, that changed after I saw all the police around the Korean Press building. I have a ton of photos to process and I think that I got a few that will come out really nice. I was right up close for shoving match between the police and one of the protesters. It was quite interesting. I don't know if I have ever seen that many police in way place before. I believe that the protest was because of the Youngsan fire, but I am not quite sure. I ended up following the riot police for a good stretch and it actually could have been two different protests. They were shifting back and forth from one corner to another. Here are a few of photos of the day. More to come later.






3 comments:

kushibo said...

Nice photos.

How close were you to the gentlemen doing the changing of the guard? For that matter, how close were you to the soldiers?

JR said...

Thanks!

I was pretty close to all of them, but I was using a 70-200mm zoom. Probably about 10 yards away, I would guess.

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