Photo Ethics VI
Okay. This is no joke. But this happened once before.
I and a group of elderly tourists, each of us armed with our respective weapon of choice, came upon a young child in a street corner, minding a small stall where she and her mother were selling lovely beaded jewelry. Good thing that I had hung back on the edges as I had a different subject of which I wanted to take pictures. It turned out that child was quite shy and had an issue with cameras, so when this large group of people with cameras started to crowd on her, the poor frightened kid started bawling! With the language barrier and the mother coming into the scene not sooner (enough) than five minutes later, imagine how we had tried to appease the child.
But the lesson of this story is that, if possible, avoid traveling in a large group when taking pictures. If you can do it alone, it’s the best way to get good street photos.