Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry, I believe you have displayed "premature criticulation" (aside from a little hoof in mouth) here and simply did not do your homework. If you bothered to actually look at the series of photos, and read the captions, I believe you would have been able to discern that he MUST have had permission, or was holding someone hostage...in order to have the unfettered access that it appears he did have, from before opening, behind the counter, throughout an entire shift...and beyond closing (of that shift), and to have the "stories" he did. One photo is of the manager (full front face shot) dealing with an "issue" with a customer...and either the manager was blind, really dense or knew this was going on. Austin > First you say that you have never done that, then you encourage > your students to do just that. Isn't there an English word for that, > besides "catspaw". It starts with an "H" and ends in a "Y". :-) > > Jerry > > bdcolen wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html