Had an intense conversation with a cab driver today. It was friendly but a little heated. Near the end of the journey I asked him if I could take his picture (it took me a few minutes of steeling myself before I asked.) He said he could’t. He claimed that they aren’t allowed to get their picture taken. He said that he could get fined if TLC saw the picture. I’m skeptical that this is true, but I didn’t want to push him. If someone doesn’t want their picture taken I don’t want to take it. Even if I do… I don’t want to force people too far out of their comfort zone. Actually strike that. I do want to push people out of their comfort zone, at least philosophically or politically, but I don’t want to shove my camera in the face of someone who doesn’t want it there.