Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Jean-Michel. To be honest it would be a bit of a stretch to say 'they let me take pictures'; I had an M3 and it was mostly carried under my coat. I probably just looked like a tourist with a German camera. Last year a law school professor friend asked me if I had been afraid when I took these photos because if detained I would have had no constitutional protections whatsoever. Reflecting back as nearly as I can I think I - as a second year law student in Europe for the summer then - never even thought of that. Which is a tribute to something I suppose but I'm not now quite sure what. --Bob ===On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> wrote: > I love your pictures, Robert. The world they describe seems to be so far, > almost unreal ... and yet you're talking about something that happened > during our lifetime. I'm surprised, though, they let you take pictures! I > visited the GDR in 1974 and no picture-taking was allowed for visitors from > the West then. > Cheers, > JM > > > Jean-Michel Mertz > Strasbourg > > > >