rain and picture
February 26, 2005
Knowing that most people would be in the street on 25 Feb I didn’t want to go out
But then the family told me they were going to wafra at one of our relative farm
The weather was fine so I agreed
Not long after we left it started heavy raining, and I do mean heavy raining!!
After a while it stopped, later we found out that it kept on raining in Kuwait city, yet it wasn’t raining as much (kind like few drops here and there) the further you went south
Any way, I want to discuss another thing, how do you people with camera take pictures!! My god I can’t even stop anywhere or walk to take a picture
Once I hold the camera to take a picture of anything people start looking at me, I see people getting there mobile and start dialing , and i have to move or the cops show up ( they did once ) .
I remember back in 1999 , It was summer training , I was stationed at Directorate General of Civil Aviation , I had to make a report , so I borrowed a digi-cam from a friend of mine
Went there, took some picture inside and the next day I got one of the student to help me take picture outside, me with the plate that has the name outside
Less than 4 minute later, airport security jeep come and take it us to interrogation, after ½ hour of interrogation they found out we just wanted to take a picture for a report (which what I said the first minute, but you know police & security), they let us out and told me to get a permit, I asked where from and nobody knows
( of course i did manage to get a picture later for the report, below is what i used )
So since I can’t do like others (cough cough mark cough) and say I’m from outside Kuwait Does anyone know where to get a permit?
man if you go stand outside the amirs house and start taking pictures you will bound to grab some sort of attention. you dont have to act like a tourist to take pictures, just be more careful of what and where you are shooting. I have a a week old semi-beard now and i doubt i look like a westerner but i wouldnt go into marina mall or sultan center and take a picture. a security guard will definetly come up to me and ask me what ia m doing. if you are out in the public streets and you take a picture of a non govermental building and you are not wearing a Bin Laden Rulez tshirt, i doubt anyone should give you a problem. i know a photographer who was hired to take a picture of a shop from the outside. He started taking pictures when the cops showed up and arrested him. turned out the building behind the shop had americans living in it so they confiscated the camera and locked him up until they could get a hold of the shop owner to confirm the photographers story.
Comment by Mark — 26/2/2005 @ 5:26 pm
There is no place to take a permit to take a pics,
but you should take pics for place no one care about
Comment by busynow — 28/2/2005 @ 2:42 am
mark i was once taking pictures of our house then a patrol car stoped next to me and he asked me what was i doing ,
if i wasn’t carrying my civil ID i may have been carried away for questioning ( thats what he told me ) and that was 2 years ago
when did taking a picture of a house become a crime ?!?!
Comment by forzaq8 — 28/2/2005 @ 8:02 am