Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/29

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Subject: [Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:14:37 -0400
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It helps considerably to be a female ;-)

Tina

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Metairie has been on a "family friendly" crusade for the past few years.
> That's fine if that's what they want to be, the anti-New Orleans (they
> earned that reputation when their levees DIDN'T fail, but their parish
> president decided to flood his cities during Katrina by turning off all of
> the pumping stations).
>
> Photograph a building, and you're a terrorist. Photograph a female walking
> in a mall, and you're a video voyeur. I got stopped by the police in
> Plaquemines Parish in 2002 while trying to photograph a great blue heron.
> Got accosted again in Hahnville while trying to photograph an old cemetery.
>
> Is their a "best disguise" that one can wear to be allowed to photograph
> something in public? For me, a Hawaiian shirt, Bermuda shorts, and black
> wingtips with white socks seems like the winning combination.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffery
> _________________
> Jeffery Smith
> Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA
> www.400tx.com
>
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Phil Swango wrote:
>
> > Lew Schwartz wrote:
> > This is just NOLA sexual paranoia/hypocrisy stuff, taking advantage of
> > some poor schmuck who has other problems to score points with their
> > bigoted constituency. The problem is that, if they get away with it,
> > they will start chipping away at everyone else's freedom. They need to
> > outlaw eyes, memory and Mardi Gras  to be consistent.
> > ==================================================
> >
> > It is pretty ironic, given the city's well-deserved reputation for open
> > debauchery and its penchant for exploiting it to promote tourism.  I
> happen
> > to love the place and was just there a year or so ago on family business,
> > partaking in the merrymaking myself.  I didn't visit any Metairie malls
> > though -- that's where the *real* hardcore stuff goes down.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Phil Swango
> > 307 Aliso Dr SE
> > Albuquerque, NM 87108
> > 505-262-4085
> >
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


Replies: Reply from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.)
Reply from lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz) ([Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.)
In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.)
Message from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Well, this is a huge step backward.)