On 8/13/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only real restriction that I have heard about involves taking pictures > of children, which has gotten offensively restrictive. > A guy in Winnipeg got kicked out of a sports complex for taking pictures of > his kids in a swimming pool. Apparently, because there was the possibility > that he could photograph kids other than his own, he was doing an > undesirable thing.
It's terrible how that situation is in the USA. Here I hesitate before taking a picture of a kid, and I wouldn't even think of going to a playground to take pictures. In Spain, these last two months, it was the complete opposite: I had no problems at all taking pictures of kids in the street. Often, after a few frames I would make eye contact with the parents, smile, and either move on, show them the pictures, or otherwise start a conversation. People in America seem to prefer to live in this atmosphere of paranoia... j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
