[LargeFormat] Rites of passage

[stuart phillips]

Not that kind of tanks you moron.  Storage tanks. Are you so caught up in
your country's present military glory that you cannot conjure up an image
of a humble receptacle.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LNphoto" <LNphoto@twmi.rr.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Rites of passage


> "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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