Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] What I did today
From: chefurka@sympatico.ca (Paul Chefurka)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:47:15 GMT

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:22:22 -0400, sam <salex@idt.net> wrote:

>        <<< I had one person challenge me today, which is pretty good,
>especially as I had got real cheeky by the end of the day, and I was taking
>pix of her kid, or more precisely, her putting her hand over the kid's face
>to stop me taking a pic of her kid.>>>
>
>Lucky for you her husband wasn't there (she obviously DID NOT want you to
>photograph her kid) - . . .you'd may have found out how your f***ing Leica
>tastes as well as feels!
>
>Candid grab street shots are challanging and can be rewarding. But if
>someone clearly protests, continuing to shoot is a viscious invasion of
>privacy, in my opinion.

Especially candid shots of other people's children, as I found out to
my dismay this summer :-/

Rule #1 of personal street shooting - if someone objects, STOP.

Paul Chefurka