Really! I have been taking photos since the 1970s and I don’t recall ever traumatizing anyone in the process. This past year I managed to upset a large dog and a very small child. I was visiting friends in Canada and admired their beautiful dog. It was a nice sunny day so I called him out to the back door to the deck where I though I would take a nice photo of him. He stood still when I called him until I snapped the first photo. Then his eyes widened, his tail fell between his legs and he slowly walked back into the house and all the way down to the basement. When he returned upstairs a little while later, I showed him my camera and he headed down the stairs again.
Needless to say, I got a nice photo at my one try! Last week I was taking some photos in a local shop and noticed the little toddler standing behind the counter barely clearing the top with his eyes. I turned and took a photo, no flash or anything, and his face turned from curious to tears. No matter what, I couldn’t recover him to make friends with the camera. Even though in both cases I was at least 10 feet away and didn’t use a flash, it seems that the camera has changed over the years. The lenses are no longer extending from the camera and cell phones are flat and more commonly used. I think my medium size lens just looks like one strange big eye to these frightened subjects.
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