Encouraging street photography

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And every motor insurance company encourages you to carry a camera and if involved in an accident PHOTOGRAPH it.

 

[Roger Hicks]

And every motor insurance company encourages you to carry a camera and if involved in an accident PHOTOGRAPH it.

Hmmm... Maybe we've found a sponsor. The government LOVES 'pubic-private partnerships'.

Cheers,

R.

 

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Hmmm... Maybe we've found a sponsor. The government LOVES 'pubic-private partnerships'.

Cheers,

R.

Not sure about 'pubic'-private partnerships Roger although it might be worth asking for a 'Norwich Union'.
Regards
Peter.

 

[RML]

Roger, your suggestions sound good but there's one snag... they would give people power. Power the governments don't trust us with. We might just get so powerful and self-confident we don't need the government's protection anymore. All them politicians will loose their power and will actually have to do some real work on real problems.

 

[charjohncarter]

Good idea, this anti-criminal things has worked in the past. Some fashion photographer photographed an individual shooting someone during a fashion shoot. Or was that in a movie.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Roger, your suggestions sound good but there's one snag... they would give people power. Power the governments don't trust us with. We might just get so powerful and self-confident we don't need the government's protection anymore. All them politicians will loose their power and will actually have to do some real work on real problems.

Ah....

You have identified exactly the same problem as I did at the end of the original AP piece. Which is why I had let it lie dormant until this thread.

Cheers,

R.

 

[xayraa33]

Roger, your suggestions sound good but there's one snag... they would give people power. Power the governments don't trust us with. We might just get so powerful and self-confident we don't need the government's protection anymore. All them politicians will loose their power and will actually have to do some real work on real problems.

This is a very good point.
Government and Corporations( and I include national organized religions here too) would not want each human being to discover the potential power within each of us.
It is better to let keep the population sedated with TV, consumerisim and paranoid by manufactured terrorist fear and racial- ethnic divisions.
the old divide and conquer.

 

[eric rose]

Wee Gee shootout

Wee Gee shootout

The bunch over at APUG were yakking about doing a Wee Gee shootout. You know get out the old Speeds and do some night street stuff. Well I got pissed with all the "talk" and no action and challenged them to actually DO SOMETHING instead of just talking. My Large Format group here in Calgary got together and 3 brave souls went out on Feb 29th in downtown Calgary and did some night shooting on the maln downtown strip. We got some great stuff and had a lot of fun.

So did any of the rest of the APUG'rs do anything? Well of course not! The thread went dead after I challenged them to get away from their keyboards and actually do some real photography rather than just talk about it. Geez.

The photos I took are in my gallery on APUG if your interested.

http://www.apug.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=305

I think you have to be a subsriber to view them. I used my Linhof Tech IV with Sunpack potato masher flash, Nikkor 135mm lens and HP5 film rated at 400. Souped it in D76 1:1.