On 5/29/07, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
David Gerard stated for the record:
On 29/05/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Somebody who's spending a week hanging around at an airport taking pictures may end up being asked to prove that he's not casing the joint in preparation for some kind of terrorist plot. :-)
"Don't worry, sir. I'm from Wikipedia. Everything I do here is neutral. If I can proceed without interference, we won't be writing an article on *you*."
- d.
I like it! But I expect I won't be the only terro-- er, baby-kill-- that is, um, well, the point is that the amount of military hardware lying around that airport that week will be greater than many nations' entire arsenals. There will literally be hundreds of thousands of people taking pictures.
But, I suspect, not all of them will be willing to contribute their photos to Wikipedia.
-- Sean Barrett | Nov shmoz ka pop? sean@epoptic.com |
Last air show I went to, photographers kept bumping into each other--took some fun pictures of that after a while. Be sure to shoot the display tags alongside the planes or whatever you shoot (I assume you're shooting digital), as it may make accurate identification and use in articles easier.
KP