[mrodgers]

I'm new here and new to photography. I just read through a 9 page thread on "Post your candid shots". I saw quite a few children with comments such as "I don't know who this was..." type since it was a candid shot thread.

I have to ask, why is it that people who are into photography feel it is within their rights to first, take pictures of other people without their knowing it, and second, to post them on the internet, especially of children.

Now, I would look at the photos and see the expressions and the shot and think "what a great picture" same as many would. But, I do feel sorry for someone if my wife was at the park with my 2 young girls and she caught that person taking a picture of them. I would fear that they would be out quite an expensive camera. And about the internet, does anyone ever think that maybe someone wouldn't want pictures of their little girls out posted on the internet?

It goes beyond what I feel is BS "photographer's rights" or whatever they call it. It's about morals. I will never post pictures of my girls on the internet and I know my wife would be absolutely furious to be surfing around at a site like this one and find someone who had posted a candid picture shot at a park or something of the girls when the photographer did not even know them.

Do people who are into photography as a hobby ever think of this? That perhaps someone wouldn't want their picture taken and certainly a mother wouldn't want their little girl's pictures on the internet? This type of thing is just absolutely unacceptable in my eyes.

Care to discuss?