Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]herb: >A few years ago, I was stopped from photographing the party I was >with at the checkout counter of a supermarket in Portugal. I don't >know why. Not knowing Portuguese but assuming that Spanish would >work, I said: "Mis amigos," but the harridan, who outweighed me by at >least a factor of two, kept saying "No, no." i was made to stop taking pictures in central market in austin, texas, last year. of course, i was being really obnoxious and using a flash. we have a new, upscale outdoor mall here in bombingham, the summit, which is suited just perfectly for dusk photography. unfortunately, the evil management of the summit will not allow photography on the premises. their excuse is the copyright of the architects (and i use the term loosely in reference to this structure) and the photographers who've shot the buildings for commerical purposes. i think the real reason is so johnny bourgeois, MD, won't end up seeing pictures of his 13-year-old daughter getting felt up through her britney spears halter top. (sorry, the way the white-flight kids act when hanging out that this place bugs me.) the rent-a-cops at the summit get all LAPD if they catch you doing photography. one of my friends got around this by photographing under the powerlines, which, in alabama, is public right-of-way, and by ingeniously taking his pinhole camera into stores and setting it on the shelves. no one knew what it was. - --darb - -- brad daly bwdaly@hiwaay.net photographs: http://home.hiwaay.net/~bwdaly "I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time." --Alvin Straight