Adulthood.
I love taking photos. It's fun, it's creative, it's invigorating. You get out there, you walk around, set up shots, take shots and move on with life. It's cool to go through the process of standing out there, bag on your hip, camera in hand and away you go. It used to be, not too long ago, you could bring your tripod down to the National Mall with a tripod and set up and take a bunch of really great shots. Sadly, now, this gets you run off by security. The Capitol, too, is off-limits to shutterbugs, except by hand.
It used to be that you could take your camera a lot of places that now frown on photography. Jeff Harrell thinks this is part of growing up and not being an ass, but I have to disagree with my learned colleague. How does taking a photograph of the Capitol make people legitimately uncomfortable? Because it reminds of us that there are people who want to kill us? Well, good, that should remind them of that, but it shouldn't make anyone uncomfortable. Unless you're taking a photograph OF someone, there's no reason to fear a photographer.
Unless they're paparazzi.
Then you hit them with hammers.
Comments:
I'm with you Tom. At a meeting last year, I came to the most uncomfortable realization that in many ways, our government is overreaching on certain issues. Read about it here. You don't really realize how important these issues are until you find yourself suddenly unable to do things that previously were taken for granted.
Posted by BWJones on December 5, 2005 — 11:15 AM