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 making any connection between photographers who point their cameras at children and pornographers. Hell I would guess I take as many photos of children without the permission of their parents as anyone on this list. I guess that being the naive guy that I am I could not understand this parent getting upset enough to contact Google if this was all innocent. I should have known better. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: John Francis <[email protected]> Sent: December 30, 2011 12/30/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Photos of Children 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 children and photographers. That's even apparent here, amongst folk who should know better. 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 must be some kind of sick pervert. 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 in some way being presented as anything other than just random children? Does the gallery provide any additional information to identify them? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
