Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 22:48 Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V11 #85 > Anyone who asks me can always have a copy of the photo > in question ... What percentage of people actually ask for a copy? > ... and I will always explain who I am and what I am doing. What purpose do you give them in explanation? What _is_ your purpose, usually (journalism, personal interest, or what)? > Two of them were on drugs, and a third was selling > stolen goods. I've noticed that I can isolate people engaged in questionable activities by pointing a camera at them, even if I would not have otherwise known. I can tell which immigrants are illegal by which ones hide their face or scamper out of the frame when they see me taking a picture. I'm not exactly sure what they fear; even if they are completely illegal, a photograph of them proves nothing, except that they happened to be standing there at the time. -- Anthony