Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Comment: You can't film here! > Retort: Hey, you're right - you're stood in the way!
Photographing in Germany isn't much fun either. There's always some self-appointed "warden" around who'll tell you you can't photograph here or pass there. Walk into a derelict and obviously abandoned factory building and you can bet some old bugger who spends his days behind his curtains on the other side of the street will be calling the cops. So, I usually go to Belgium on weekends. Their heavy industry is a lot more photogenic and the people are friendlier. The Belgian police are notoriously underpaid and overworked and they'll gladly leave you alone if you don't really ask for it. Problems over there are very few and far between. Once I had the manager of an Arab "culture club" - the usual kind of shady coffeeshop in one of the more errr... picturesque parts of Liège - make one hell of a stink because I had dared to photograph his house when all I had been shooting was the factory opposite. All attemps to shrug him off failed and he wouldn't stop. He even followed me down the street. Sometimes you just have to bluff. "Listen, mate. I'm here in private, enjoying my sunday. I couldn't care less about your business. But if you'll insist on convincing me that you have something to hide in your hut, you'll be twisting my arm and I'll have no choice but to inform our Belgian colleagues so they'll come and have a closer look at what it is. Your call..." He's been going out of my way ever since. :-) Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses -- 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.
