လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၂ ႏွစ္အတြင္း ထုတ္လုပ္မႈ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာ တစ္ဦး ျဖစ္သည့္ သမ္နမ္ဆန္းသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား၏ စကက္မ်ား ေအာက္ဖက္မွ ပံုရိပ္မ်ားကို ဓာတ္ပံု ခိုးရိုက္ ခဲ့ျခင္းဟု သိရသည္။ အသက္ ၄၇ ႏွစ္ရွိ သမ္၏ ျပစ္မႈမ်ား အေပၚ စကၤာပူ တရားရံုးက ၾကားနာ လ်က္ရွိၿပီး ေနာက္ တရားရံုးမွ ထြက္လာသည့္ သမ္မွာ စိုးရိမ္ ထိတ္လန့္ ေနဟန္ ရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းမ်ားက ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည္။ ၎၏ ေရွ့ေနက စြပ္စြဲထားမႈ အမ်ားစုသည္ သံသယ အေနအထားတြင္သာ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း Straight Times သတင္းစာသို့ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ တရားရံုး မွတ္တမ္းမ်ားအရ သမ္သည္ ဒီဂ်စ္တယ္ ကင္မရာတစ္လံုးကို ပလပ္စတစ္ အိတ္တစ္လံုးတြင္ထည့္ကာ သိုဝွက္ၿပီး အမ်ိဳးသမီး၏ အဝတ္အစားမဲ့ ေအာက္ပိုင္းပံုရိပ္မ်ားကို ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ဆင္ ရိုက္ကူးေနခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ပါရွိသည္။


တရားရံုးက ဗီဒီယိုမွတ္တမ္း ၈၅ ခုကို သိမ္းဆည္းရရွိထားေၾကာင္း လည္း သိရွိရသည္။
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Watch that camera !!!

"IN LESS than three hours, a production engineer managed to shoot 85 upskirt videos of unsuspecting women two years ago.

Tham Nam Sang, 47, was charged on Tuesday with 85 counts of intruding into the privacy of his victims.

According to court documents, Tham is said to have placed a digital camera in a plastic bag with the lens pointing up to film videos of the undergarments worn by his victims.

Between 5.10 pm and 7.30 pm on Sept 6, 2008, he is believed to have visited the Suntec City convention centre, Ngee Ann City shopping centre as well as several other unknown locations.

By approaching women in short skirts and placing his bag near their legs, he is said to have filmed their undergarments. The court was not told if the videos were of 85 different women or if some of the videos were of the same victim."

It is obvious that many people carry a camera everywhere they go. Some lug around a huge DSLR with tripod slung across the body like a bow , some have a digital camera bulging in their pockets and many use a handphone with a camera . So the odds are that almost 2/3 of adults have a photographic device of some sort ....

I am one of those who have succumbed to the DSLR craze . If i do not bring a camera with me on an outing, I feel empty and practically naked . Yes, that's why i have more than 100,000 photos in my folders - of events, people and quirkies ....I take pictures of signboards , of scenery, you name it....anything which i feel is worth capturing ....but the bulk of my photos are of my family....cos i want them to have memories to look back upon ..

My photography coach Jarrod Stone must have at least 10 times more photos than i have ..he cannot live a day without taking photos ...on his way home, when he sees a sunset , when there is any incident on the road .....and he has revealed that he has been 'stopped' by police several times already..but after showing them the photos in his memory card, they have waved him on.

But lately, we do hear of police geting sensitive over phototaking . The recent incident of a newspaper photographer being handcuffed for taking photos during the flash floods ( or causing an obstruction) hogged the headlines ....why would the police resort to this ...i dont know the whole story but of the little i know, it does seem strange . Our insurance companies regularly remind us to take pictures of accidents, so it is normal for me to see people coming out of their cars and taking pictures on the road ....hmm

My advice to those people who, like me, cannot resist toting a camera everywhere they go is simply this :-

1. DO NOT CONCEAL YOUR CAMERA . Make sure everyone can see you holding the camera WHEN YOU ARE TAKING THAT PICTURE . No commando style photo-taking .


2. DO NOT TAKE COVER WHEN TAKING THAT PICTURE . Do not hide behind pillars , do not kneel behind a bush- okay, you get the drift .


3. HAVE EYE CONTACT WITH YOUR SUBJECT . I've noticed that actually many people do not mind having their photos taken , but they do feel uncomfortable if you do not make that known to them . Fair enough, right ?


So , do carry on taking photos .....but have some discretion and common sense .

When my old friends Joan and Geoff were in Singapore in March, they saw me taking photos everywhere ....When my kids were swimming at the hotel pool, they said to me that in Britain, I would have been stopped . When I asked why, they said it's because there were other kids around . They shocked me further when they said that it has reached such ridiculous proportions that cameras are not even allowed for Sports Day and School events ...only a professional photographer engaged by the school or organiser could take photos ...WHAT !!!!!!!!!!!!

Gosh, I do hope we dont end up that way....so please, please use your camera wisely lest we all lose our freedom to shoot .

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