I have one of those. My baby daughter grasping one of my empty beer cans. We laugh at it today. Particularly at the cheap bottom-of-the-barrel swill I was drinking at the time.
Don’t they have digital photography in Newfoundland?
Ska-rew film developers.
Canada Non-Ping!
I would have grabbed the images off the counter, told them off the Walmart manager, and marched out of the store.
Control freaks. The world is full of them. Especially in the feral government.
There’s a common-sense line between child porn and naked-baby-on-a-bearskin-rug kitsch. Of course, that presumes that common sense prevails in the world, a dubious presumption at best.
Good grief. We have one of those pictures of our first little granddaughter at 5 months. She was sitting on dad’s knee, cute as a little button, at the cottage, and dad was having a Heineken. She grabbed the bottle and started gnawing the end and I snapped a picture. I think most families have one of these pictures, silly as they are.
We’re not even drinkers!
Just goes to show: if you want it done right, get the software and do it yourself.
What pansies people have become!
I know I feel safer now that Walmart is protecting me from photos of babies with bear bottles.
I shoot digital and rarely print. When I do, I have a good printer I use at home. On really rare occasions I may get a professional print done. (like once a year, maybe)
Think I'll have some prints made though: "you s**k" and "what are you looking for in here perv" and "mind your own business big brother" and "I could follow you home" etc.
If pictures of bare-bottomed babies are ‘illegal’, then it only stands to reason that it will soon be illegal to even LET your child be naked.
Good luck with that.
I don’t think the article is telling the truth.
Her photos weren’t confiscated. She still has them, as they are digital.
Walmart simply decline to print photos that violated their company policy. That policy is arguably stupid.
In Germany this photo would have been lauded as typical.Freedom is not respected in Canada. People feel free to trample all over ones freedom at the drop of a hat and any excuse. This is the accepted culture of Newefoundland in some quarters.They have a love / hate relationship with booze and grog.
Please don't let Michele Obama see this article. I hear she is seeking a new crusade.
Years ago my daughter-in-law posted an adorable picture on her blog of two young (under 3) grandchildren in the big tub taking a bubble bath. Unfortunately one of the kid’s lower area was a bit exposed - I told her to take that picture down fast, or some sick person would report it and her for child porn or something equally awful.
I may be have been overreacting, but in this day and age, I don’t think so.
Love her expression.
We have a picture of me as a kid a few years old, standing up in the tub, full-frontal nude, clearly screaming and crying blue murder at Mom and Dad. They were standing back enough that there wasn’t much to see other than that. They had it processed without any trouble. Mom and I (and Dad when he was still alive) have, even while we laughed at the memory, often talked about the furor that one might cause now.