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Edward Lever Posts: 734 Joined: 22nd Dec 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 08:37 on 24th October 2013 I wonder whether other PoE members have been asked by a tourist at some sight-seeing location if you could take their photo (with their own camera or phone of course). This has happened to me quite a few times now. The tourists are often young and female, so an old-fashioned gentleman like myself finds it impossible to refuse such a request. Sometimes the camera or phone they thrust upon me is a high-value item. I am flattered that they are so trusting. Perhaps they see that I am of advanced years and therefore trust me more than they would a younger person. |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 08:38 on 24th October 2013 Maybe they think they could outrun you Edward! lol |
| Edward Lever Posts: 734 Joined: 22nd Dec 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 08:41 on 24th October 2013 On 24th October 2013 08:38, Ron Brind wrote:
How very unkind, Ron, when I thought it was all about my natural mature charm ! |
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | quotePosted at 08:44 on 24th October 2013 Has happened to me too Edward. 2 or 3 occassions a few weeks ago in the Lake District. |
| Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 08:50 on 24th October 2013 Eward we all think that don't we? lol And Dave? Well they probably just took pity on you and wanted you to use a decent camera! lol |
Paul Hilton  Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 20:18 on 26th October 2013 I've been asked countless times to take pics of someone with their camera. The most trusting one was back in the early 70s with a Japanese tourist in Trafalgar Square one Sunday afternoon. Wanted a pic with him and the pigeons, but decided he needed some pigeon food first. So, he gave me his fairly new and very expensive Rolliflex 2.8G TLR, and went off into the crowd leaving me holding his camera until he returned. He came back several minutes later and pic taken for him. Personally, i wouldn't really recomend giving a total stranger a top of the line pro camera, then going off leaving them with it whence they and your camera could disappear in seconds. I was also given a case with 2 Nikon F's and lenses to look after by a total stranger as he walked off across Copthall playing fields in Hendon while I waited in a car park for him to come back after he disappeared into the distance in search of a baseball game being played there. Edited by: Paul Hilton at:26th October 2013 20:22 |
| Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England | quotePosted at 19:16 on 27th October 2013 You must have an honest face Paul, which leads me to wonder ... would I buy a used car from you  |
| Edward Lever Posts: 734 Joined: 22nd Dec 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 23:12 on 27th October 2013 My experience is that the tourists who make these requests are usually Japanese. I have never seen a Japanese tourist without a camera, and I assume that photography is such an integral part of their culture that everyone owns a camera. It would never occur to them that a stranger might be a cad and make off with the camera. Or perhaps us PoE members have such honest and pleasant appearances that such behaviour is inconceivable. |
Rod Burkey Posts: 554 Joined: 2nd Sep 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 23:44 on 27th October 2013 I too have taken such pictures, and often if I have my camera, I will ask if I may take their picture too. Tourists are such good subjects dressing for holidays and feeling more outgoing than maybe they would back in their own home towns and countries. We have just returned from a holiday on the island of St. Martin and in one lovely seaside bar had our pictures taken by a waiter who made a fine subject for my Nikon. I got his email address and will send the image I captured in the next day or so. |
| Edward Lever Posts: 734 Joined: 22nd Dec 2005 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:08 on 29th October 2013 On 27th October 2013 23:44, Rod Burkey wrote:
I agree that this is a nice idea in principle, and worked well in the situation Rod described. However, I feel this would not be as easy with a lone female tourist, who might misconstrue the photographer's interest as being voyeuristic. There are many occasions I would have liked to make such a request, but have been worried about the response. It would probably have been easier if I had been accompanied by my wife. |
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