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Celebrating the end of Ramadan in Roxbury
By adamg on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 1:54pm
Iseut reports:
Was awakened this morning by the sound of prayers being sung.
She walked over to the Madison Park High School field to take photos.
Jonas Prang took photos as well, and describes the event:
There were men and boys of every stripe streaming onto the field. Of hats I saw knitted skull caps, white and black ones, Afghani pakols, keffiyehs, and turbans. I even saw one fez. There were a few men in formal black suits, medical personnel in scrubs, young men casually dressed in jeans and shirts open at the collar. Many men were wearing light, calf-length robes, some stopping to pull them from their backpacks and don them before doing down to the field. Almost every man seemed to have a plastic shopping back for his shoes and a prayer rug.
Eventually a man came to the bleachers and shooed all the able-bodied men out of the bleachers and down onto the field. ...
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Comments
What's with all the
What's with all the chain-link fences in the images? Ohmigod, are Muslims being rounded up into camps?!
I hope the Globe can keep employing real photojournalists, because snapshotters are not the same thing.
location, location, location
Um...it's a football field surrounded by a track, with fences in front of the bleachers. My high school football field was set up much the same way. Maybe this is what happens when one only looks at photos and doesn't read the text.
And what's the Globe got to do with this?
Because there's a lot more to
Because there's a lot more to photojournalism than being at the scene and making a properly exposed image. It's like the difference between professional reporting and random blogging.
You asked a question and you got an answer
That's part of the essence of journalism. It's just being done a bit differently here, as sort of a joint effort rather than by a monolithic Bigfooted MSM outlet (I am NOT arguing that bloggers will replace MSM, that's really a tired old debate). If you really like the Globe, fine, nothing wrong with that (we still get the paper on Sundays). We'll see if they even covered this event (and if they did, you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see anything about it).
You're right; I'm not a photojournalist, not even a journalist.
Dear Anons 3:09 pm & 5:30 pm,
There's more to signing a letter to the editor than just using a time-stamped pseudonym. But, that's just my opinion. On the intertubez, anonymity seems to be the way of the world. Sigh.
As for me, you're right; I'm not a photojournalist.
I use an ancient digital camera the size of a pack of cards. I've got fat fingers and middle-aged eyesight. The camera's got tiny control buttons the size of a bedbug, idiotic indicators more cryptic than Germanic runes, and a display screen that completely washes out in even moderate sunlight.
Even more, I'm no journalist.
I write English prose and I decorate it with pictures. I make no pretense to reporting "the news." I've chosen a geographic area a fraction the size of a ZIP code: my neighborhood. And, I've chosen to write blog posts with a particular slant regarding what makes this neighborhood tick. (Yes, I know; ZIP codes are not polygons.)
And finally, I'm no web publisher.
Nor a webmaster, nor a certifiable computer geek of any sort. I know precisely enough to shove my content out onto the web—and, by design, not a scintilla more.
I'm guessing you don't live in my neighborhood. Maybe this is just a typically parochial Boston attitude, but I'm not writing for you. No offense intended; I don't know enough about you to like or to dislike you.
Who is my audience? Me. And, folk who live near me.
If I get as many as 50 readers a day, without a boost like this one from Universalhub, then I think it's time break out the tubas and roll out the barrel. (Though, I'm dying to know who all my Brookline Village readers are! Who are you?)
If you don't like my product—or Iseut's or eeka's—then don't read it. Go read something that you do like.
Best regards,
Jonas Prang
*I* enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing.
I read the news from lots of difference sources, but I think my current favorite is Universal hub (and the links found there-in). It can't replace main-stream new sources, but is a wonderful you-are-here supplement.
Oh, and the discussion can be lively. Gotta have your teflon for that, but if you do, even that can be entertaining! :)