Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] As The World Turns
From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@icommag.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:23:19 -0400

> Good points, Jeffrey. And there are very few places - "national
> security" aside - where you can't eventually work out a way to take
> photos if your are serious about what you're doing, and have a
> legitimate reason for photographing.

Good point B.D., I always just take the pictures, if somebody asks me not to
then I do not. This was taken at the German Embassy 2 or 3 years ago. You
probably know who the kid is, he has become world famous. I was sitting in
the front row and the Leica is so quiet nobody noticed:

http://www.streetphoto.net/images/im42.jpg

sl


>
> I remember a long discussion on this list about the impossibility of
> shooting inside Starbucks. Couldn't be done, people said. It's against
> corporate policy, they said. Starbucks sucks, they said. Which is why I
> challenged one of my students to do a project on a day at Starbucks -
> http://web.mit.edu/21w.749/www/Students/aaronmihalik/finalproject/
>
> Starbucks isn't a "cat house," but the principle is the same. ;-)
>
> B. D.
> 
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