RE: [Leica] Photography permits

["Kit McChesney" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>]

Come on, Jerry. One has to go where the ROCKETS are! 

Kit


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:19 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Photography permits

Sonny

Fairhope is not really on the "Guff".  It is on Mobile Bay.  It does have
a super English pub.

Yeah, I left Fairhope for the slums of La Jolla, California.  One has to
go where the work is.

Jerry

Sonny Carter wrote:

> Hello Jerry,
>
> you worked at Fairhope, and left it for California?  Now I know you
> are crazy.  Fairhope is probably the best part of the Gulf Coast.  The
> *only* place where you get hills and beaches.
>
> SonC
>
> Thursday, November 20, 2003, 8:35:59 PM, you wrote:
>
> JL> Kit
>
> JL> The closest that I have ever been to a "country in the developing
world"
> JL> was when I was working in Fairhope, Alabama.  I think that they would
> JL> want a Mont Blanc pen there, not a Bic. :-)
>
> JL> Jerry
>
> JL> Kit McChesney wrote:
>
> >> In countries in the developing world, it is considered impolite not to
> >> compensate (where I traveled, they call it "matabiche") a subject for
the
> >> privilege of photographing him or her. When I spent time on the border
of
> >> Rwanda and the former Zaire, folks expected a little something to
compensate
> >> them for their time. It made sense. We were taking something from them
in
> >> the form of an image, and they wanted a little token of our gratitude
in
> >> return. I gladly gave them whatever I could. In the late 80s, the
"currency"
> >> of choice at that time for schoolchildren was the BIC pen. They would
run at
> >> us, delighted to be photographed, and at the same time, squealing
"Beec!
> >> Beec!" their way of pronouncing "BIC." I could have given away 55
gallon
> >> drums full of them had I had them with me.
> >>
> >> Kit
> >>
> >> ==
> >>
> >> Jerry Lehrer noted:
> >>
> >> "Doug
> >>
> >> Completely correct.   I was only talking about the FEE to photograph
> >> something,  not the cost of getting there, or an entrance fee.
> >>
> >> Jerry"
> >>
> >> --
> >> To unsubscribe, see
> >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html
>
> JL> --
> JL> To unsubscribe, see
> JL> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Sonny                            mailto:sonc@sonc.com
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html

- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html

- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html