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I can’t say I’ve been thrilled with recent expeditions during my digital photography class. We did an event shoot at a lecture that really didn’t work out well at all; I won’t even bother posting anything from that.

The next week we walked over to the State House and shot the protests (both for and against) during the debate over same-sex marriage. The first shot you see here is from that. It’s not a great photo, but shooting a protest is surprisingly difficult. If you can’t see it well at this size, it’s an eight year-old child holding a placard saying “Sodomy is sin”. I wanted to stop and ask him if he knew the definition of “sodomy”, but I was trying hard to maintain journalistic neutrality.

This week we wandered around Boston’s South End, which was a little more fertile territory, but I still wound up with a favorite image that isn’t particularly artistic, but more found humor. In this case, it’s from a bill that had been taped to a lightpost and later torn off, leaving only the well-taped shreds of paper and the very Zen message “Everything Must Go!!!!”

Maybe things will improve in coming weeks. I’d like to have something a little more artistic to show you than these…