I didn't mean to hijack (er, um, loaded word) this thread away from lonnit's cool photography. I don't want to get political, but this is the politics of taking pictures.
Maybe they hope you'll get upset and lose control and then they have a legit reason to detain you.
Exactly. Same thing when you're sued. You could be totally innocent yet your name is trashed - there will always be some who will believe you are guilty, and you have to spend a fortune on lawyers to fight it.
The 9-11 terrorists did pose as tourists and took tons of pix. Photos can give lots of details when someone wants to study how something is constructed if they want to blow it up.
Not as quickly, not as accurately, and not as inconspicuously though.
True. If just absolutely stinks that we even have to have these kinds of conversations. It just disgusts me that there are people out there that are so sick as to do these evil deeds.
It angers me that people are being wrongly harassed.
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WHAT??? Ok, so next time I drive over a bridge, I'll stop the car, climb over the side, lower myself down on a rope and check for signs. OH, I get it now... that's how they getcha!!! It's not legal to cliimb the bridges! Now they'd have a right to stop me! LOL!
Oh, absolutely. I waited 35 years for this camera - I'm not looking to get it taken away with it less than a month old! If the sign clearly says no, of course I wouldn't shoot. I just don't go for traps.
Don't thousands of tourists do this every day? If I took a trip to washington I'd be doing it to catch the cherry blossoms. I dont' think I'd be able to avoid getting the federal buildings in the backround!
Oh, yeah. I was just kidding on that! NOT good to antagonize a cop... particularly and NY cop! I'd like to be able to walk away to photograph another day!
Well gee thanks... Express's "Riot Siren"! LOL! But I don't really think it was the jeans you were looking at! LOL! This would technically be the 7th self-portrait I've posted here though. The first was my car mirror sig line, 4 more are in the self portrait challenge, the 5th was a fleeting temporary head shot in my sig, and this, the new sig that's been on a few days now. There's also another of me in my winter coat floating around on one of these threads! LOL! I do shoot alot of myself oddly! Oops, just remembered..... move them all back a notch. When I first got here, last month, people kept thinking I was a guy. I posted yet another self portrait to show I wasn't. LOL!.
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Then I guess I did my job well! LOL! Did you think this one was too? LOL!
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It's not that you are expensive, but my computer crashes too often. Hehe…
I hate to say this, but you had taken the surprise element out of it for me already. It is still a good shot though.
Okay, guilty as charged. Please, punish me some more!
LOL!!!! Yeah, isnt' that fun!
Oh well!I hate to say this, but you had taken the surprise element out of
it for me already. It is still a good shot though.
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