Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They might think you're a surveyor, using one of those laser transits to plot the course of the new interstate freeway across their farm. Or that you have something to do with the crop circles that have been appearing in their fields. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bergman, Mark A." <mabergm@nppd.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Street photography > I tend to think it's society. I like using large format for landscape and > over the last few years strange thinks have been happening. Farmers in > Nebraska tend to be pretty friendly but when I set up the tripod and LF > camera (and imagine being in the middle of nowhere) the farmer will come > roaring up in his truck demanding to know what I'm doing. Most times when I > show him it's a camera and I'm a nobody with a hobby they'll back off. > Lately though I'm afraid some are going to shoot. > > And I'm talking being a mile from the nearest building, no one in sight, > taking a picture of a cornfield. Kind of creepy. >