12-24-2010, 08:14 PM
Gary, print out a couple of photos of the bridge you built and take the stick and go do your thing. I realize that I wasn't photographing buildings in "terrorist times," but I did have the occasional person ask me what the hell I was doing. But I had the stick, my Pentax 35mm SLR and usually a model railroad magazine. Those things got me by and usually the people thought it was "different," but kind of interesting that I was going to build a model of "their" building. Offer to give them a photo when it's complete. I don't think you should have any problem.
[In a recent issue of Model Railroader, Rod Stewart claims he has an issue of the magazine with the first article about his railroad in it that sits on top of everything else in the large model-building-tools-and-supplies crate that he takes with him on tour to convince the customs people that's what all the Xacto knives and stuff are for.
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I carried that stick into downtown Philly on the Paoli Local one time and photographed a few small structures (a bar, a hardware store, etc.) and never really had more than a few questions asked, answered and that was it. The explanation of the markings on the stick and a couple wallet-sized photos did the trick. But it was in a big city where no one pays much attention to anyone else ... "never make actual eye-to-eye contact with anyone when in the City." 8-)
[In a recent issue of Model Railroader, Rod Stewart claims he has an issue of the magazine with the first article about his railroad in it that sits on top of everything else in the large model-building-tools-and-supplies crate that he takes with him on tour to convince the customs people that's what all the Xacto knives and stuff are for.
]I carried that stick into downtown Philly on the Paoli Local one time and photographed a few small structures (a bar, a hardware store, etc.) and never really had more than a few questions asked, answered and that was it. The explanation of the markings on the stick and a couple wallet-sized photos did the trick. But it was in a big city where no one pays much attention to anyone else ... "never make actual eye-to-eye contact with anyone when in the City." 8-)
biL
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln