[Leica] story behind who

[rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (rob mcclure)]

Sonny,

Great story.  You are lucky, though, you didn't have to sacrifice your  
M8 to save your hide.  Of course if it were me and my m8, i'd  
sacrifice up to $4000 of hide to protect it.<G  A few years ago we  
stopped at a Cracker Barrel in Ocala Florida.  Paris Hilton and Nicole  
Ritchey were in their slumming as they were in the area taping their  
stupid travel show. I grabbed my Likka Leica and got off about 4 shots  
before a burley bodyguard body blocked me and said that the "ladies"  
did not want to have their pictures taken.  I argued that I was not  
paparazzi and was just an amateur grabbing some tourists shots.  He  
said he knew what I was doing and to stop or else...  I didn't know  
what "else" would be and didn't want to find out so quit shooting. In  
retrospect I should have sold the pics to one of the celebrity rags  
because Paris was buying trinkets with a credit card and the premise  
of the travel show was that they were working their way across country  
with no credit cards.

Rob
On Dec 29, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> 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
>
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