Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, According to Platoali it is most of the times oke to take pictures. You should be more careful with heavily veiled women. Most women wear a scarf because they have to, not because they want to. These women only wear a fashionable scarf loosely. It also seems that it is easier for tourists to take pictures because the people know you'r not someone from the police. Without Platoli i was quit careful. especially because I don't know the language. With him I was much more confident taking picture because he speaks the language and him being a photographer also could much better sense if it was oke to photograph or not. In one week i only encountered one man who didn't want to be photographed but three times it was forbidden because the premises I wanted to take a picture of was military or a minestery. On the Jomeh bazaar we needed a permit but because I was a tourist it was alowed to take a few. In the end it was more relaxed than I expected. Thanks for looking, Michiel Fokkema Ted Grant wrote: > Michiel Fokkema showed: > >> This took some time but at last I have my pictures from the week in Iran > online. Most pictures are made on the day Platoali from the LUG guided me > through town. I'm very grateful he made time for this. It is very good to > experience that through the LUG we have friends all over the world. > >> The pictures are here: > >> http://michielfokkema.wordpress.com/picture-a-week-2008/week-06/ > > Hi Michiel, > > Certainly a different peaceful view of Iran than those showing Canadian > soldiers fighting against the Taliban to uphold the freedom the Iranians > now > enjoy to some degree. > > I wondered if under the rule of the Taliban could you roam so freely taking > pictures? > > Did you encounter anything of this anti- photographer nature? > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >