maybe it's just me

al Qaeda does their homework

I've haven't really looked to the internet for support aside from dictionary.com, maps.whatever & the occasional foray in webMd to misdiagnose myself. After my late night run-in with the CPD a few weeks ago, it never occurred to me search the web to see if anyone had the same problem because I knew they had. By coincidence(s) today, I came across a link to PhotoPermit.org which attempts to directly address the problem(s), discuss experiences & offer bits of related news. There's good info for those photographers who are out there "looking suspicious". Also check out Brown Equals Terrorist for a firsthand account.

I just realized that I never posted anything about my encounter with the police. The basics include me & Carlos (darker & fuzzier than yr average), after midnight, walking around with the camera near the bridge over the river at Archer & Halsted (sort-of industrial nowhere), I wanted to take a picture of a pole & building & whatever, cop stops "What are you doing? etc, IDs please", two more squad cars, the cops act like cops (the stereotype is based in fact), they joke about us going to some other city to take pictures, we say little, they let us go with a "warning" & a "go somewhere else". The whole thing got me spooked. I've been working on this night project for 18 months & have never even talked to a security guard much less the police. Here I am struggling to get out of whatever rut I'm in, with that evening's plan of a series of pictures down & around Halsted & then they show up. Boo. I don't even want to think about what the police are going to be like in Boston. We're moving there just after the Democratic National Convention.