Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:09 PM 11/15/2004, EJ Schlup wrote: > >All the time I have spent in Mississippi I have never > >been stopped for photographing anything, period. I > >have photographed heavily down there. > > I've been reading this thread with interest. Here in Albuquerque I'm shooting on the street every day and no one ever stops me except an occasional shop-owner who wonders what I'm up to. The funny thing is that this is the home of a large nuclear weapon storage facility, Kirtland AFB, Sandia National Laboratories (nuclear energy), a huge Intel chip plant, and Los Alamos Nat'l Lab just up the road a piece. And then there's the Very Large Array and White Sands Missile Range to the south. You'd think everyone would be jittery as hell but they're not. I lived in Memphis during the time of the King assassination and photographed the protest marches there. I only got stopped once by a cop who thought my belt-clip-mounted M2 might be a gun. I have no idea why photographing protesters should raise a concern these days, but it seems to strike a nerve in some places. BTW, I still have that belt clip for M-bodies. Anyone else remember them? Phil Swango 307 Aliso Dr. SE Albuquerque, NM 87108 505-262-4085 714-908-7846 (fax) pswango@att.net