dude, your email client is the worsetest. subject keep changing On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kimani : TransTech " Love For Tech Stuff" <techstuff@transtech.co.ke> wrote:
Stephen and Mblayo,****
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Why do you want to just go to the street and take photos of Our buildings and not follow such a simple procedure****
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Actually if you go to Ministry of Information or ICT board, you can get a letter from Bitange or Paul Kukubo that can even enable you get a waiver on these costs that you are sooo complaining about****
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How do you want to spend a day photographing our buildings and we don’t know who the hell you are.****
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Kindly respect and follow procedure. Don’t see the CCN and Central Police and a bother…..they aren’t****
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@ Mblayo…I don’t know what cities that you are talking about….about I know every city has Non Photography areas….and for Nairobi, all our buildings are Non Photography areas unless you have authorization.****
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I was with a group of Kenyans in Newyork in 2010 and they decided to take pics of a beautiful bridge as we got to NY...we were in a car…..and that guy really sweated his small cloth explaining that he is an innocent kenyan on an exchange program……****
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Lastly…Mblayo… The Nyeri women comments isn’t good. Such a stereotype that we are all cracking a joke about, happened in 2006-2007 when some people were called “ Madoadoa” and you well know what happened in Dec 2007- Feb 2008.****
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Thanks and go and get the correct authorization. Kudos steve for your consistency****
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Kimani Maina****
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*From:* skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] *On Behalf Of *Brian Munyao Longwe *Sent:* Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:47 PM *To:* Skunkworks Mailing List *Subject:* Re: [Skunkworks] Taking Photos in Nairobi****
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:* ***
This is utter rubbish. I have traveled through many cities in the west and I have never found one that you have to pay to take photos with a hand held. In some places I have even asked cops to pose in the shot and they do it so gladly.****
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Do they have Al-Shabab there? Or Nyeri women who might take exception to being caught in the background?****
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Mblayo****
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*From: *"stephen wanjau" <wanjaustev@gmail.com>****
*To: *"Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>****
*Sent: *Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:50:09 AM****
*Subject: *Re: [Skunkworks] Taking Photos in Nairobi****
Hello,
I actually visited the City council and they advised me that I needed a letter from the Ministry of information!
They usually charge 2600KES per day for taking pictures of buildings and monuments.
I was wondering why they should have such bureaucratic processes while for my case am doing this on a voluntary capacity for a non-commercial endeavor under the umbrella of the Wikimedia Foundation.
After capturing the photos I will upload them to WikiCommons under the CC license.
//Stephen****
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Gichingiri Kuria <gmail@gichingiri.com> wrote:****
Stephen, please make a visit to City Hall to confirm on actual costs and procedure.****
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On 21 February 2012 21:17, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:*** *
Hello,**** Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera With 18-55mm VR Lens @ KES 85,000****
//STEPHEN****
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:****
On a different note, if anyone's selling a Nikon D5100 please let me know. ****
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../bernard****
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:55 PM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:****
Hello,
We are a group of volunteers under the umbrella of Wikimedia foundation which is non-profit. We will be having no tripods just simple DSLRs like the Nikon D5000, smartphone cameras and so on.
Someone charging me for 4K+10K per street is totally insane. So to say.
If anything we will be doing a great task of putting Kenya's capital on the web.
These images shall later be uploaded to WikiCommons under the CC license which implies they are free for reuse either commercially or freely.
Anyhu, I will make a point of going to Central police station because of the current invasion by KDF into Somalia. Plus the CCN who am sure will charge some amount.
Thank you for your feedback about this.
Regards, Stephen.****
On 2/14/12, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
Thanks guys for the heads up.
I guess I need to have eyes at the back of my head when I come to Nairobi with my camera. I think its high time they changed their attitude and realize times have changed.
It gets worse. It was a big deal for me once at Kinshasa airport, when they were searching through my laptop bag, and my camera was inside it. Some idiot cops/customs guys harassed me, saying I needed a permit. So I told them to show me where to apply and pay, and reminded them I'd need two more permits for my phones too, since they both have cameras. And I proceeded to ask other travellers if they had permits for their phones too.....I pissed them off so much they had to let me go.
Of course no such permit was required, they were just hoping I'd panic and pay up...
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