Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, here's the story. I'm walking down Front Street Saturday Evening. We have several thousand extra people in town, because it is the last night of fireworks before Christmas Fest ends. I look ahead, and see a woman still photographer, a girl in a gown, a guy with a video camera on a hand-held boom, and another fellow who is a little too put-together for the weather and location also a guy about my age, schlepping the camera bag, all of them way oressed verdfor fireworks night. Naturally, I raise my camera, and suddenly the whole gang shouted, "Don't take any pictures!" I said to myself, "Self, these people are on my main street." So I take a picture. I was only interested in the Tout Ensemble, anyhow. I walked past, and said, "This is a public place, you can't tell me not to take pictures." This seems to enrage the crowd of five, none I've ever seen before in my town. I walked past, turned, and started to take another shot. The skinny-too-put-together guy, stepped out of the little crowd, raised his forefinger and shouted at me. "Stop taking Pictures! Right Now!" He said it twice. I almost raised my ted-finger, but did not, then I said "No!" I walked away. The guy schlepping the gear came over to me, and said, "the bride was nervous." I explained that I'm a local photographer, that I shoot for Louisiana Life magazine, and have a Photography website. He said "that's the problem, She doesn't want to end up in some magazine or on some website." I said "She's on the street, and I can take pictures on the street, and I do not appreciate the skinny guy threatening me." Of course, had the skinny guy been braver, one of two things might have happened; I would have found out how an M8 works as a protective device, or the skinny guy would have been jailed for attacking an elderly handicapped old goat with a camera. And that's the story behind this blow-up http://www.sonc.com/who.htm Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA