I shot this picture with my Contax G1 film camera, I really wasn’t expecting much from the image but it turned out to be one of my favourite pictures of the day!  Shot from the top of a random building in downtown Johannesburg.

Barack Obama was recently in San Francisco for one of his dinner ‘fund raiser’ things.  There were a lot of angry people out front of the hotel, holding up some offensive banners and getting in arguments with other people that had different views to theirs.  We stood around the other side of the hotel where the more ‘mellow’ people were standing, in hope of a glimpse of the president.  I didn’t get to see him, well, not until later on that is.  It just so happened that he was leaving the hotel as I was walking back down this way later that evening and I got a glimpse of him driving by in his limo, followed by many cops on bikes and in cars, it was really something to see.  This picture is of one of the banners that were being held up out front of the hotel.  I got the feeling they didn’t like Barack Obama too much.  I shot this with my Contax G1 film camera.

I’ve been inspired by my friend ‘Simon’ to get one of these cameras!  He has been visinting here in South Africa, doing some photographic work and I must say, the quality of these cameras is amazing and that’s what made me wanna get one!  I got this one off e-bay and can’t wait to get some other lenses for it!  I’ll post some pictures that I have taken with it soon…  It’s not digital so it will take longer to get the images processed.  I shot these picstures of it with my EOS 50D and used my light box that I made.