Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It helps considerably to be a female ;-) Tina On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: > Metairie has been on a "family friendly" crusade for the past few years. > That's fine if that's what they want to be, the anti-New Orleans (they > earned that reputation when their levees DIDN'T fail, but their parish > president decided to flood his cities during Katrina by turning off all of > the pumping stations). > > Photograph a building, and you're a terrorist. Photograph a female walking > in a mall, and you're a video voyeur. I got stopped by the police in > Plaquemines Parish in 2002 while trying to photograph a great blue heron. > Got accosted again in Hahnville while trying to photograph an old cemetery. > > Is their a "best disguise" that one can wear to be allowed to photograph > something in public? For me, a Hawaiian shirt, Bermuda shorts, and black > wingtips with white socks seems like the winning combination. > > Regards, > > Jeffery > _________________ > Jeffery Smith > Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA > www.400tx.com > > > > On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Phil Swango wrote: > > > Lew Schwartz wrote: > > This is just NOLA sexual paranoia/hypocrisy stuff, taking advantage of > > some poor schmuck who has other problems to score points with their > > bigoted constituency. The problem is that, if they get away with it, > > they will start chipping away at everyone else's freedom. They need to > > outlaw eyes, memory and Mardi Gras to be consistent. > > ================================================== > > > > It is pretty ironic, given the city's well-deserved reputation for open > > debauchery and its penchant for exploiting it to promote tourism. I > happen > > to love the place and was just there a year or so ago on family business, > > partaking in the merrymaking myself. I didn't visit any Metairie malls > > though -- that's where the *real* hardcore stuff goes down. > > > > > > > > -- > > Phil Swango > > 307 Aliso Dr SE > > Albuquerque, NM 87108 > > 505-262-4085 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com