On 03/06/2011 6:26 PM, steve harley wrote:
okay, if by "my people" you mean the US, you're right -- but the CIA is
probably onto you for writing like me
True story:
I was sent to the local casino a few years back to photograph the
interior of one of the (very large) rooms.
There was some sort of card tournament going on that had attracted a lot
of people, and my job was to get an overview shot of the room.
I had checked in with my contact at the casino, and had been given both
a place to shoot from and a window of opportunity to get what I needed.
And left to myself.
So, there I was, with my Pentax 6x7 (this is now on topic, right?) on a
tripod in the designated area, and the time to shoot is now.
And a security goon gets in my face and points vaguely off at someone of
the hundreds of people down there and said that she was a CIA agent and
she didn't want to be photographed.
It was quite surreal.
Anyway, I told him to shove off, I really didn't believe him, and even
if I did, it wasn't my business to give a damn about foreign spies,
check with the person I had been told to check in with (the head of
security, it turned out) about what I was doing and when I was allowed
to do it, and suggested that if anyone on the floor didn't want to be in
pictures, now was a good time to go to the bathroom.
And that I now had 5 minutes to do what I was being paid to do and he
could get the hell out of my way, and go do whatever he was supposed to
be doing now that it was determined that hassling me wasn't going to get
him any gold stars.
--
William Robb
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