I'd have hit him first...
Bob W wrote:
> Thanks. I had a very enjoyable and quite interesting day. When I saw
> all the police I thought there was a demo in Parliament Square, which
> is illegal now. So I thought I'd join in - I wouldn't care what the
> demo was about, within reason, I'd do it just to say F you to the
> government for making demos in Parliament Sq. illegal. But the New
> Zealanders were a very good-natured bunch just having a good time.
>
> But I must have been in a bolshie mood today. In Covent Garden I
> started to photograph something, not even a person, and was about to
> decide not to because it was a crap photo, when somebody very
> aggressively told me not to take photos. So I said it was a public
> place and I was entitled to photograph anything I wanted, which I
> proceeded to do rather than be intimidated. Of course it turned into a
> shouting match. This bloke seemed to think that if he asked me not to
> take a picture I was legally obliged not to! I offered him the
> opportunity to sue me. It all ended up with me telling him to F off
> and a couple of times I could see he was ready to hit me, but he could
> see I was perfectly prepared to hit back, so it didn't come to that.
> I'd made my point, so I walked off, feeling rather heroic for standing
> up for my rights.
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi
>> Sent: 03 February 2007 22:39
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
>> Subject: Re: Waitangi Angels
>>
>> Another fine set o photos, Bob.
>>
>> The Olympus lenses are excellent. I continue to be so tempted to nab
>>
>
>
>> a modest Olympus kit ... an E-1 with the 14-54, the 11-22 and 35
>> macro would do it. Prices on used E-1s are very attractive.
>>
>> Sigh. I could always resist anything but temptation.
>>
>> G
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Bob W wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> went for another stroll around London to see how the newly
>>>
> acquired
>
>>> 14-54 lens performs. I'm quite pleased with it - it seems to be
>>>
> very
>
>>> sharp. These pictures are straight out the camera with no colour
>>> fooling around. Shot raw, iso 100, daylight. If anything it's more
>>> saturated than I really like, but I do seem to have shot a lot of
>>> bright colour today. All the exposure were on P, with
>>>
>> matrix metering,
>>
>>> and it seems to have coped ok with that too, mostly.
>>>
>>> http://www.web-options.com/London3/
>>>
>>> Parliament Square was invaded by New Zealanders. Here's why:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_Day#Elsewhere_in_the_World
>>>
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