[Leica] Gosh, really Buzz?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Reminds me of the time in about 1973-74, when a friend and I set out to 
canoe the St. John's River -which forms part of the Maine/US/Canadian 
border, from it's headwaters to Ft. Kent, below the point where it joins the 
Allagash. As we drove into Canada to start our trip, a friendly border agent 
stuck his head in the window of the car with the canoe on top, asked where 
we were headed, and wished us good luck. Period. Coming back, crossing into 
the U.S., the thug - no other word for it - with the very big revolver on 
his hip, asked what we'd been doing in Canada. "Canoeing the St. John," we 
said. "But what were you doing?" he demanded. "Canoeing." "Were you 
fishing?" "Nope, just canoeing." He didn't like that. And at that point 
asked that we open the trunk of the car so that he could search it.

I love many things about my country, but....

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George Lottermoser
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Subject: RE: [Leica] Gosh, really Buzz?


Jeffery Smith7/30/04
>I suspect it is because (at least in the US) the fear of having the 
>camera come back to haunt them such as in the Rodney King beating video 
>and the many that have come after it.
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>.....................
>I find North American "authority figures" much more paranoid of 
>photographers (God knows why) much ruder, more quick to harass and 
>overall much less professional then their counterparts in Europe and 
>even some "poor
>African countries".

Nah. As I photographed a revival tent and some port-a-potties on the corner 
of a parking lot - two rent-a-cop cars descended on me; forming a V in front 
of my car; to ask "why are you photographing here?"

Because the clouds and the tent and the building and the car and the flag 
caught my eye - looked like an xpan moment.

4 guys in two cars couldn't figure out what to do with that. One car said 
they had to wait to talk to the other car. A guy in the 'other' car was on a 
cell phone and finally just drove away without a word to the other car. Then 
the remaining fellows had no one to confer with - so off they go, with a 
have a nice day. Bizzar?. ?-) 

Fond regards,

G e o r g e   L o t t e r m o s e r,    imagist?

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