Joayne, you forgot to include Redjames as he signed up again a while ago!
Look here: https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?p=18028752
Two Nifties active is great indeed. I only wish we could see some action from the US Nifties!
That made me laugh so hard. I can just picture it!
I saw the group come my way and just walked towards them, knelt down and took a few pics. It was a spontaneous thing and it was all in the open. I mean, I didn't stake out a school and/or hide behind a tree to take candid shots of children. And of course I'm a female so that makes it less threatening. I also think we're a bit more relaxed here about people taking pics of kids than Americans; we don't automatically assume they're perverts. And in this case, like I said, I was in plain sight, the teacher saw me, smiled and waved, I smiled and waved back and the kids started to goof around when they saw me taking their picture. Just a natural, spontaneous thing and all was good.
Yeah, that wouldn't work here. My face would be plastered on a billboard and I'd be on some sort of list.
What a pity, but I believe you, Chet. I've seen people discuss the topic of photographing kids here at POTN more than once over the years and could not believe what some people said they would do to somebody photographing their children. And these were photographers themselves! To live in a world where everybody with a camera is a potential paedophile is just bizarre. Like with everything people should instead use their common sense to judge a situation. Context is everything.
