Re: [Leica] Street photography

[chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)]

I was photographing the Last Demo in the waning days of the WTO debacle,
when one of the demonstrators accosted me and demanded to know if I was a
cop (nope). Then, was I a member of the news media? (No, again.) Then, what
was I doing taking all those pictures?

I gave her my demented Peter Sellers grin and said, "I like to watch." I got
a disgusted look, and wasn't bothered after that.

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Brownlow" <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Street photography


> on 31/7/00 6:39 pm, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote:
>
> > John Brownlow wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> i think it was the same day, another homeless guy, not
> >> quite so nice. came up to me *pretending* to be a plain clothes
policeman
> >> and demanded to know what I was doing.<<<<<<<<
> >
> > And Johnny boy,   Just what did you tell him to do? ;-)
> > ted
>
> It was a bizarre conversation. He kept saying 'I'm a plain clothes
> policeman' and I kept saying 'No, you're not'. He asked for my ID - I told
> him I didn't need any - and I asked for his. He reached into his back
pocket
> very confidently and fished out... an empty cigarette packet. At this
point
> I think he realised the game was up, and he apologised. I told him he
didn't
> have to (because I thought the whole thing was funny and in any case I
think
> people have a right to ask me what I'm doing, even if they are pretending
to
> be a policeman). But he apologised anyway. At one point I thought he was
> going to get nasty. The whole thing started because I was photographing
some
> kids in a bus stop and I think he thought I was a paedo or something. I
told
> him I photographed everyone, not just kids, and that seemed to take him
off
> the boil.
>
> --
> Johnny Deadman
>
> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
>
>
>