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There are 33 photos from him at https://imgur.com/a/Eplvs https://imgur.com/a/Eplvs. Several look as though the subject is aware of the camera, and at least a

There are 33 photos from him at https://imgur.com/a/Eplvs https://imgur.com/a/Eplvs. Several look as though the subject is aware of the camera, and at least a couple don't look pleased about it.

taneq 9y ago
I'm amazed that no one seems to think it's creepy. Go around taking covert photos of strangers these days and see how people react...
- megy 9y ago
  It is in public. And if you sneakily take a photo of someone, how would they know to react? On top of that, there are cameras everywhere in public taking covert photos of everyone, I haven't seen anyone react to it.
  - taneq 9y ago
    They're portraits, not wide angle crowd shots (and yes, the law distinguishes between the two, for privacy and copyright purposes). And the people reacting are the ones you told that you were taking sneaky photos, not the subjects of the photos (although if they did pick it, they also might not be pleased - FTFA: "This is physics professor Kristian Birkeland - the only one of Størmer's subjects to rumble him. Apparently he got quite cross!"). Try taking a bunch of covert photos then showing your friends: "Hey look at these photos I took of people with my spy cam!" I guarantee the reaction won't be entirely positive.
  - agoodthrowaway 9y ago
    It's still creepy. Doesn't matter if they know or not or if it's routine.
drzaiusapelord 9y ago
Thank you for this. All the smart-ass comments on the other site linked was really starting to ruin this for me. There's this wonderful beauty on display here and the response on the boredpanda site is low effort stupid jokes? Come on.