** Reply to note from [log in to unmask] Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:51:19 -0000
> I'm not sure why everyone is so paranoid about being photographed in public.
> Who wants to be one of Michael Jackson's kids wearing scarves or masks
> everywhere they go...... After all, I personally am already under the
> scrutiny of dozens of CCTV cameras from the second I walk out of my front
> door each morning until I such time as I actually sit down at my desk at
> work. So what if I'm caught on camera at a football match. I'm proud to be
> seen in the West Stand at Highbury any day of the week. I can even remember
> pulling up next to a No. 52 bus at a set of traffic lights on my Vespa one
> afternoon, and turning round to see somebody pointing their mobile phone at
> my through the window. They turned the phone round, showing me the digital
> photo they had just taken of me. I gave a smile, a thumbs up and drove off.
> I haven't the foggiest idea why they wanted to take a photograph of me, but
> who cares. (Does my bum look big on this Vespa?) And for the record, the
> fact that I gave them a thumbs up constitutes "consent" in my book. And I
> think that if you point a camera at someone and they smile back at you,
> that's "consent" too.
No Antoinette, you look fine on the Vespa :-)
Which nicely takes us back to the point of two people posing in front of a church. I
hear all the judgement that has been passed whilst there is extremely little informaiton
to go on with. Photographer found guilty. Children in playground, any male that looks
in their direction guilty as charged. Having a camera with you means you are in for at
least paedophilia (thus photographing animals you are in for another ...philia).
You know, animals are always in the nude. Watch out next time you visit a zoo.
Without seing the picture is not as straight forward to judge, and by seing it, it does
not mean a better judgement could be made. But why doesn't anyone give a chance
for the photographer that he did ask for permission? Yeap, we know he does not
have it in writing. I wonder if the photographer used a 5x4 or a throw away digital
camera to take the photo.
Yo, *do gooders* that you want to stop me taking photographs. Do something
useful:
1. roast some children after birth
2. lock all ugly people in their houses
and let us get on with life.
Charles
PS. I do take photographs but I find that people simply spoil them.
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-348845.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/
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