[Leica] Children in the Park I : and a disturbing incident

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

No such problems out here! As of now, mothers will push their children out
in front to get photographed  on the streets of Chennai.

What you say, though, makes me genuinely wary of photographing people when
I am wandering around alone in the cities of the economically developed
world.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 5:36 AM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Excellent.  Just out of curiosity, do you know these children?  Many years
> ago I was waiting for a friend in a local park to go shoot some fall
> color.
> I had just received my 35/2 R lens and was pointing it around to see how
> it
> might flare in the sun.  I happened to be pointing it in the area of the
> children's play area and some guy came up to me and challenged me about
> taking photos of kids playing.  I didn't even have film in my R8 at the
> time.  He wrote down my license plate number.  I then pointed my camera at
> him and took his picture (no film, remember).  Luckily my friend showed up
> and we wandered off to take some photos.  That was pretty upsetting to me,
> being a teacher.   It was a sad commentary on the state of affairs in our
> modern society.  Growing up in Seattle, I met an elderly gentleman on the
> corner of our bloc, three houses away.  We got to be friends and he got me
> started on my science career.  His name was Trevor Kincaid and he has a
> building named after him on the University of Washington campus.  He was
> long retired but we spent a lot of time together catching insects and
> looking through his microscope in his basement lab.  Can you imagine
> anything like that happening today?  Sad as I learned a lot from him.  My
> parents eventually met him and even my brothers and sisters and my
> neighborhood friends would partake in his company at times, but none as
> much
> as I would.  Without him my whole life would have been different.
>
> Aram
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lluis Ripoll
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 7:57 AM
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> Subject: [Leica] Children in the Park I
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> On the way
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2020F100113.jpg.html>
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> A Princess ? from her Balcony
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2020F100122.jpg.html>
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> Playing with something
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> Park?s games
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2020F100126.jpg.html>
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> Saludos cordiales
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