{"id":341,"date":"2009-04-16T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-05-23T07:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T12:33:41","slug":"giving-photojournalism-a-try-a-local-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/16\/giving-photojournalism-a-try-a-local-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Photojournalism a Try: The Morehead City &#8220;Tea Party&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy, when the other kids were playing &#8220;cowboys and indians&#8221; I was frequently playing &#8220;newspaper reporter.&#8221;  I was always fascinated by the idea of reporting news.  Though I never pursued that side of photography I couldn&#8217;t resist giving it a try at a local &#8220;Tea Party.&#8221;  Please note I&#8217;m not posting this as a political statement.  This was simply my attempt at documenting a current event. <\/p>\n<p>These peaceful examples of &#8220;civil disobedience&#8221; took place all over the country April 15.  It struck me as a newsworthy and unusual occurence.  These photos were taken at the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; in Morehead City, North Carolina.  The event was held in the parking lot of the Kmart Plaza and was attended by about 1000 people.  I&#8217;d love to hear comments about whether you think I did a good job covering this event.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_001.jpg\" alt=\"April 15 \"Tea Party,\" Morehead City, NC\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_003.jpg\" alt=\"An unusual event, people turn out to express their feelings about high taxes and government spending.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_002.jpg\" alt=\"Civil disobedience, the Morehead City \"Tea Party\" of 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_004.jpg\" alt=\"My attempt at photojournalism\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_005.jpg\" alt=\"Approximately 500 people attended this Eastern Carolina \"Tea Party,\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_006.jpg\" alt=\"\"Tea\" stands for Taxed Enough Already\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_007.jpg\" alt=\"Citizens excercise their right to freedom of speech.\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_008.jpg\" alt=\"As a boy I wanted to be a newspaper photographer.  This was an interesting excercise as a photographer.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_009.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern North Carolina citizins gather in a peaceful demonstration on April 15, 2009\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_010.jpg\" alt=\"Documetary photography is not a lot different than wedding photography.  \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_011.jpg\" alt=\"The event lasted for about two hours.\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/images\/TeaParty_09_012.jpg\" alt=\"People of all ages gathered to express their disapproval of government spending.\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy, when the other kids were playing &#8220;cowboys and indians&#8221; I was frequently playing &#8220;newspaper reporter.&#8221; I was always fascinated by the idea of reporting news. Though I never pursued that side of photography I couldn&#8217;t resist giving it a try at a local &#8220;Tea Party.&#8221; Please note I&#8217;m not posting this as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}