Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Private property and buildings
From: David Degner <ddegner@morris.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 10:33:57 -0400

The most commen thing people say to me is something along the lines of 
"These [photos] arn't going to show up on the internet are they?".  What's 
a reassuring response?

David Degner



>-----Original Message-----
>From: matt kollasch [mailto:matthew.kollasch@uni.edu]
>Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:27 AM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Private property and buildings
>
>
>I recently was taking photos of the State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa. It
>is massive and
>old stone building, built in the 1880s.  Creepy too, of course.  After a bit
>a uniformed
>guard in a pick-up pulls up next.  He says, "Da boss and dem want to know
>what yur takin'
>pictures for."  I wanted to say that I am planning a jail break, but I was
>dutifully humble
>and explained I liked the building and wanted a few photos of it.  I was
>reprimanded.  I
>apologized.  I figured the view from this side was better than the other so
>I didn't get
>wise, as it were.  On the way out of town, I got this shot and nobody
>challenged me in the
>taking of it.
>
>http://www.uni.edu/kollasch/photo/paw/pages/week-16.htm