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I agree with you and shoturtle, too. Your views sound opposing but I actually think don’t. I’d say they’re complementary. Regarding the cop, I’m now convinced it’s all about terrorism. Our daughter said Lockheed Martin is in Endicott, too. And that, according to our daughter, is a terrorist magnet. When I look it up on Google Maps, Lockheed Martin also shows up at the IBM buildings. So maybe that’s why the buildings are blurred in Google Maps. So the cop was really being very nice. We are ethnics (although we tend to forget that after living in melting-pot NYC for so long) and the cop probably didn’t want us to think he was stereotyping us in any way. He probably can’t say no either and didn’t want us to stop shooting pictures – heavens, definitely not scare us by asking us for identification which I would have happily obliged. It would be my way of helping our cops breathe a little easier. But he had to do what he’s paid to do so at least he had to ask. In contrast, I’ve met lots of building security guards in NYC who are rude and sometimes go on power trips. If you come to NYC and visit only the American Museum of Natural History until closing hours, you might leave with the impression that New Yorkers need to learn some manners when you are ushered -- I’d say kicked -- out of the building. But going back to Endicott, I agree -- I think the cop doesn’t have adequate training to differentiate terrorist from civilian. I think we could have very easily been ruled out of the “suspicious-looking” category. Then again, maybe he’s aware of his shortcoming if we can call it that. And probably thought it was better to be safe than sorry so he did what he did. If so, then I’d say more power to him and to good and honest cops like him for keeping our towns, cities, and -- you never know -- our country, too, safe. |
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For now, for my #3 Esplanade shot, I cheated by using Gaussian blur on the clouds to reduce the noise. |
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Hey, guys,
Someones are fooling you to get frightened //T
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