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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
15 January 2024
It is profoundly sad to pass this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the country America has become.
Revelation. Nikon Coolpix S6 at f3.0, 1/4 second and ISO 50. Processed in Camera Raw.
We shot this image with a Coolpix in 2006 at night. Eighteen years ago. For several years we used it for our MLK story.
This year we got the bright idea to run it through Camera Raw to see if we could breath more life into it than that old Coolpix could manage on its own.
We could indeed, as you can see.
We enjoy many advances in the technology we rely on as photographers. But as citizens of this country we suffer the same nonsense we've heard all our lives from the same people who are nothing less than proud of their prejudices.
If you squint, you may notice a quote in gold type engraved on the wall in this photo. It's from a speech King gave here in 1956:
I believe that the day will come when all God's children from bass black to treble white will be significant on the constitution's keyboard.
That was seventy years ago. And the day still hasn't come.
Fox News has come. MAGA has come. An insurrection has come. And in the bitter cold of Iowa, as if it were Dante's ninth circle of hell reserved for traitors including the Devil himself, it all promises to come again.
But that day of harmony he believed would come is still only a dream.