[LargeFormat] Chicago...tripods and the law

[Verna Knapp]

I have a brother who does recordings of frogs in nature. His equipment 
for sound amplification of distant frogs is very good, and rather large, 
so the cops have a tendency to ask him what he is up to. He tells them 
in great, gory technical detail, complete with the latin names of all 
the toads and frogs, and which ones he hasn't found yet, and, and, and, 
and he is a rather long winded biologist. :-) They tend to lose interest 
after a while and go away mumbling to themselves. Probably long before 
he runs out of things to talk about. ;-) Surely some of us could adapt 
this idea?

Verna

Richard Knoppow wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Chicago...tripods and the law
> 
> 
> 
>>Joe,
>>
>>try going out and photographing the suburbs at night with
> 
> an 8x10 and then
> 
>>see what kind of attention you draw...
>>
>>tim
>>
> 
>    Many years ago, when the Universal Studios Amphitheater
> was open air, I worked for the MCA legal department making
> community noise measurements in the hillside residential
> areas surrounding the facility. I used a small sound level
> meter on a tripod and sat taking readings a couple of times



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