Am 14.04.23 um 10:33 schrieb Steve Cottrell:
Interesting. I guess it’s an aspect of different cultures’ perceptions.
Different cultures and, most of all, different times. There was a time when a photographer was the friendly guy with a camera who took nice pictures and people were glad when someone photographed them. Things have definitely taken a turn for the worse since Dutroux in Belgium and the accident of an estranged British housewife in Paris. Today, we're the perverts trying to snatch pics of their kids. I've taken photos of the blast furnace plant in Seraing with a few buildings behind me when a crowd emerged from those houses and almost lynched me because they "knew what's going on with the houses and the children and all that...". Another time, some guy with a bad case of testosterone poisoning followed me in his car all across Liège and insisted on seeing my ID because I had taken photos in his neighborhood and my car had foreign numberplates. I won't mention the guy who stormed out of his house wanting to know why I had taken pictures of it (I hadn't) or the woman who kicked my Zoom audio recorder off a sea wall in Ostend because she thought I had photographed her with it. I've all but given up taking photos when there are people and, worse still, children around. It's just not worth it anymore. HCB would have a hard time nowadays and our museums would be a lot emptier. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012 -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
