{"id":340101,"date":"2025-10-29T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340101\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:09:10","slug":"photographing-no-kings-rally-in-hyannis-finding-right-camera-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340101\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing ‘No Kings’ rally in Hyannis, finding right camera angle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘No Kings’ protesters rally for democracy at Hyannis rotary<\/p>\n

No Kings Rally in Hyannis draws a big crowd at the Airport Rotary<\/p>\n

\u201cSimplicity is a solved complexity.\u201d That sage advice is from Romanian sculptor Constantini Brancusi<\/a>. It perfectly describes the quandary facing a photojournalist<\/a> heading off to cover many assignments. How to tell the story, often with space for only one photograph, on a tight deadline.<\/p>\n

A mantra drilled into us in photo school: there is always a photo there, it is your job to find it. Sometimes the opposite problem arises, a good photo is everywhere the camera looks. Such was the case with the recent \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally<\/a>, a 360-degree view of photo possibilities.<\/p>\n

The infamous Airport Rotary has been the landing spot for many demonstrations over the years. But this rally was the largest I had ever seen there. The first problem is always the same at every assignment, where to park. When the deadline is tight, getting boxed into a parking space is a bad thing. My solution, park far away and walk in.<\/p>\n

Catching my eye on arrival, many participants wearing inflatable costumes navigating around in a gusty north wind. Getting the names of people behind a fogged-over face covering was a bit more of a challenge, but a koala bear with a bullhorn is an image not soon to be forgotten.<\/p>\n

Next up was a walk around the rotary, looking for a good angle. I was next to the airport and there were too many people to accommodate a drone flight, but I needed altitude badly.\u00a0 A berm on the airport side of the rotary gave a few extra feet of vertical lift for a few images.<\/p>\n

For a long-ago story about rotary traffic, we rented a bucket truck, positioned at the edge of the circle, and shot a wide view looking out in all directions from forty feet in the air. That came to mind, but was pure fiction, not a reality in this case.<\/p>\n

A good-sized pickup truck proved to be the next best solution, a friendly crew atop it welcomed me up. Not the most graceful crawl up, but the view was worth the effort. Finally a camera angle to help show the size of the crowd. Not wanting to hog the view, I yielded my spot to another photographer eager for the vantage point. A younger, nimbler me would have made a smoother exit, but camera and operator arrived back on ground level in one piece and the photos all made it in ahead of deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘No Kings’ protesters rally for democracy at Hyannis rotary No Kings Rally in Hyannis draws a big crowd…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":340102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[647,931,648,1032,4284,4276,4282,18359,98299,4285,1033,8297,171,167611,425,666,308,50,18361,450,1457,22912,22914,3092,1451,4281,4293,4294,21702,7237,21710,4283,448,646,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-340101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-affiliate","tag-and","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-banner","tag-cape","tag-channel","tag-clubs","tag-clubs-u0026-organizations","tag-codder","tag-design","tag-digital","tag-entertainment","tag-hyannis","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-ma","tag-news","tag-organizations","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-photographic","tag-photographic-u0026-digital-arts","tag-photography","tag-positive","tag-print","tag-print-channel-ma-provincetown-banner","tag-print-channel-ma-the-cape-codder","tag-protesting","tag-protests","tag-protests-and-protesting","tag-provincetown","tag-the","tag-u0026","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}