Re: [Leica] Photographers named in Diana event

[dannyg1 <dannyg1@IDT.NET>]

> If a photographer has to hide in the bushes to snap a photograph of some
> celebrity bringing in the newspaper, he is "stooping".  You may call it
> "fulfilling the requirements of an assignment";  hired killers also
> "fulfill the requirements of an assignment".  But I think this is insulting
> to the vast majority of working professional photographers.

Insinuating that any photographer can simply be compared with a hired killer is 
insulting to every working photographer. Hiding in bushes is something that no 
photographer I've known, and I've known hundreds, has ever done. Yet, for some 
reason, you're married to this perception of an entire, hellacious world of 
bloodsuckers. I can't defend the extreme actions of a few, any more than a basketball 
player can defend the actions of Latrell Spreewell. I can say that as you try to equate 
my actions with those actions, I'll be extraordinarily angry.
> 
> Getting the star shot at the movie premiere is not the same as hiding in
> the bushes.  No celebrity would object to having their photograph taken as
> they step out of the limousine.  This is not the same as being followed by
> photographers as they take their children to day-care.

As I said, I don't know what the details in that Arnold/day-care thing were. I'm not 
the official apologist for papparazzo either. My interest is in preventing a perverted 
point of view from destroying the profession I love. What is it you're trying to 
achieve with your words?

Danny Gonzalez