This reminds me of a story I saw recently about the early days of HIV/AIDS - some kid in Virginia was required to wear a bubble to school to protect the other kids. Today it is photographers who are dangerous and many want to put a bubble around us to protect themselves and their kids. I think the "protection" of kids is way over the top and reflects a media which thrives on drama and scary stuff. The overwhelming majority of child abductions are about parental custody disputes, not about weird strangers. Same story with sexual assault - mostly a within-family issue. And the concept of parents "protecting" their children from vaccines!?! Giving everyone a trophy whether they win lose or draw? Driving kids to school when there are perfectly good streets to bicycle on and sidewalks to walk on? Jeesh! All part of a pattern which reflects what seems to me to be extreme overprotection.
I was browsing through Christine's summary of her 2011 PAW and noticed this shot: http://www.caguila.com/pawyear2011/content/pawweek43halloweenmaid_large.html As I recall her comment when first posting this, and based on the caption, I am quite sure she did not know this child, nor did she ask permission of the parents to take the shot and to post it. I would have done the same without a second thought, and I would not honor a request by a parent to take the image down once posted. stan On Dec 30, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > I don't think it is psycho of a parent to ask that photos of his or her > children be taken down from a website - if they are reconizeable as > individuals, certainly. had I been the photograpehr I would have respected > the parents wishes as I would anyone whose photo I took > who disliked it... at least in areas where one's removing the > photos actually does get it removed. > > And that goes for any of you guys - even if I like the photo > I'd remove it. > > As of pics of me, I wouldn't ask that of anyone myself unless > it were truly gross and I was identified. > > I had to laugh , tho, when we did PDML boston and no one took > a photo of me facing the camera - I think someone overstated > my dislike of certain photos in the past (more my dislike of hte > photographer) (and it wasnt Christine or David). > > But it is a bit scary out there these days for kids - too many > nasty things. > > ann > > On 12/30/2011 13:56, Igor Roshchin wrote: >> >> Some people get a special kind of psycho. Period. >> >> After one of the public dance events, my wife posted the photos of >> the people she took to facebook. As a part of the event, there was >> a dress-up, semi-formal sit-down dinner. >> Some guy (unknown before and after) contacted her asking to remove a >> particular photo. The funny part that it wasn't a photo of him, but >> of somebody else, who wasn't even his friend or anything like that. >> The explanation was that it is not good to post >> pictures of people while they are eating. (The guy on the photo >> had either a fork with food in his hand, or something like that, - >> and the guy looked just fine, - not that he had crambles in his beard, >> or pieces of meat falling out of his mouth...) >> The inquiry was awknowledged but ignored. >> >> Igor >> >> >> Fri Dec 30 13:42:27 EST 2011 >> David Parsons wrote: >> >> >>> People get a special kind of psycho when it's their own spawn. You >>> really can't reason with them, even when the law is on your side. >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
