Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-31 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 06:11:54AM +, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: > I didn't assume anything John, I was giving a worst case scenario, an extreme > example to prove my point, which was that there's a difference between > legally right (and wrong) and morally right (and wrong). I wasn't

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
I should have known better. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: John Francis Sent: December 30, 2011 12/30/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Subject: Re: Photos of Children On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:42:27PM -0500, David Parsons wrote: > People get a special kind of psyc

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Igor Roshchin
Fri Dec 30 21:16:07 EST 2011 Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > So, when I get to photograph other children, I often ask the parents > > if they mind that. > > But then sometimes it's just not practical, say as in this case: > > http://42graphy.org/tango/denvermem-2010/_IR_8543.html > Well in this case (a

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
On 12/30/2011 17:59, Igor Roshchin wrote: Ironically, recently, I had a dancer who stopped in the middle of a social dance (tango), walked to me across the floor (to the edge of the dance floor), and asked not to take any more pictures of her. (This happened after I had taken a few within the

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Igor Roshchin
Ann, Several years ago, I brought an album with photos taken at a music festival to the next one, so that people can see the photos. Several people said: "Great album, all wonderful photos, except for my photograph, could you please remove it?" A similar situation repeated the next time... If

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Eric Weir
On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:58 PM, John Francis wrote: > We don't have any information about what the photographs in question are, > where they were taken, or anything of the kind. And yet there are posts > here all too ready to assume that these are "kiddy porn" galleries, and > that the photographer

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I agree with many of you that the concern about the kiddy porn stuff is a bit over the top... My point is that anyone whose photo has been taken should be asked if they mind being published if it is possible to do so and certainly if you take a photo straight on. And if you can get a models

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Stan Halpin
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 t

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Tim Bray
As a matter of policy, we don't publish identifiable pictures of our children, or their names. They're not hidden very deep, someone aggressive and knowledgeable with search engines could dig it out. Partly because I'm a semi-public figure and reasonably paranoid. Partly because we believe strongly

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:58 PM, John Francis wrote: > > Absent evidence to the contrary, I'd just assume that said photographs were > taken at some public event, quite possibly by somebody known to the family. > Were the kids showing off, dressed up in costumes, participating in an event, > or

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:42:27PM -0500, 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. Oh, it doesn't have top be their own spawn. There's knee-jerk reaction to the combination of chil

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
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 l

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread Igor Roshchin
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 pa

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread David Parsons
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. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Google+ Discuss on behalf of sausagefeatures" >> >> Date: December 30