[Leica] Candid photos in public places

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

I think this is something Tina suggested a while ago.
Make some business cards. Hand them out if people ask questions. Show  
them your work in a small and handy portfolio.
Fear and suspicion have a lot to do with not knowing who is doing  
what at a particular moment.



Op 25-sep-06, om 05:13 heeft Ashley C Gordon het volgende geschreven:

> I have been a subscriber to LUG for some months now- but have yet  
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> a message until now. Looking at some of the (excellent) photos by  
> LUGers,
> especially those on public places, brings to mind a recent debate  
> here (in
> Australia) and I was wondering if this had come up anywhere else.   
> A few
> months ago there was a serious debate about banning people taking  
> any photos
> at all in any public place where there were children.  Apparently  
> child sex
> offenders had been prowling playgrounds etc with cameras and in  
> typical
> form, the over reaction was to ban photography in such places all  
> together.
> I can understand it to a degree, but the problem is wherever there  
> is a
> monument, beach, or place of natural beauty worth photographing,  
> there seem
> to be children!  Australia tends to be over-protective in such  
> matters.  I
> have been looked at with suspicion because I had a camera near  
> children at a
> local beach resort area (actually, I was trying to get a whole  
> bunch of
> beach umbrellas in frame) where as on a recent trip to South  
> America, people
> seem much happier and actually jump in frame to be in the camera!   
> Has this
> matter of children and photography come up any where else?  What is a
> balanced approach?
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> Kind regards
> ASHLEY
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