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Memorial shoot

Memorial shoot

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Memorial shoot

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- [Steve] Hey, everybody, welcome to a brand new edition of "Photo Critique of the Week." My name is Steve Simon, The Passionate Photographer, and I'm the host of this show. And today I wanted to talk about an image that I took in Boston on Memorial Day and show you kind of how I got it and the process leading up to the image that I got. So this is the park in Boston where they have a memorial and each of these flags represents a fallen soldier, a soldier from Massachusetts. And it's a pretty powerful thing to see, this sea of flags, and it makes you stop and think about exactly kind of the history of what went on. And I wanted to photograph this in a way that gives reverence to kind of this memorial. And this was the first thing I encountered. I saw this thing. This is the park. You can see that while there, there were some actual soldiers that were there or some people from the Armed Forces. And that doesn't happen…

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