Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's getting weird out there. On Nov. 2nd I took some shots of the crowds voting, when some woman jumped down my throat telling me I needed to ask every person in line for permission to take their picture, because they may be a member of SAG or another guild. I tried to be diplomatic and told her that the voting station manager had already given me permission to shoot and that she was being unreasonable, but in response she became very aggressive. So, we went tot he manager and he told her to never again try to overrule him and that was that. Then today I was up at the Getty Center. They had some kind of activities day going on and a bunch of kids were making paper masks. Two other photographers and myself stopped to take a few shots and this lady came out of no where screaming at us that unless it was our child, we couldn't take pictures. She grabbed the lens on my M7 and got right in my face. I didn't want to get in an argument with her in the middle of the museum, so I let it go and stopped shooting. That's the tip of the iceberg. Everyone here in the States is so paranoid and litigious it's becoming impossible to shoot anything but peeling paint. Feli _______________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com