[LargeFormat] Rites of passage

[LNphoto]

"I spotted a potentially good picture of a few huge green tanks."


Green or brown you should have realized photo graphing M1 Abrams, 
Bradleys or even a lowly HmV would invite trouble.

On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 02:30  PM, kaliushkin@att.net wrote:

> I have now gone through initiation as a View Camera Photographer.
>
> I spotted a potentially good picture of a few huge green tanks.  The
> viewpoint would be from a highway at the height of the tanks' tops.  
> This
> would be ideal for a view camera since the top of the tanks form a 
> horizontal
> plane.
>
> Last Friday, October 31, I set up the tripod and as I mounted the 
> Linhof, 2
> police cars with three policemen approached me, lights flashing and 
> all.
> They didn't really arrest me but they did hassle me for about two 
> hours.
>
> They told me that the subject matter was the problem.  If I were taking
> pictures of trees, they wouldn't have bothered.  Nevertheless, their
> investigation quickly moved from the photography (they didn't even 
> examine
> the camera) to me: was I a terrorist or a danger to society?  
> Fortunately,
> after calling my doctor and who knows who else, they concluded society 
> would
> be safe despite my presence.  My ethnicity worked in my favor.  No 
> trace of
> Islam. I think it was wrong of them to consider ethnic background.
>
> This must have been the most exciting event of their day.
>
> By the way, they told me they were grateful for how cooperative I was. 
>  I
> didn't give them any opportunity to say I was impeding their 
> investigation.
>
> So I've gone through a rite of passage.  Now for some safer urban 
> subjects.
> Flowers?  Buildings.
>
>
> --
> Dan Kalish
> kaliushkin@att.net
> Flushing, NYC, USA		
> 	
> 			
>
>
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