Hi guys, One thing realy quick about asking permision. Though it is a nice gesture, it can work against you when a subject knows you are shooting them. They will be typicaly less natural because they want to look good or express somthing. I prifer to not ask because of this. The other thing is (if my memory serves me) acording to the "laws" of jurnalism, if someone places themselves in the public eye, no permition is needed. IE, if you arive at an acident sceen and start shooting pictures. The emergancy personel and victoms of the acident have been put in the public eye in a situation that atracts attention to them, thus eliminating the need for any form of signed release, or notification. This also includes conserts and or any other public events. An example of this: The 2 drunk girls that riped their shirts off infront of a camara durring the last Woodstock consert in VT. (This was a relativly well know court case a while ago, because one of them was related to some politition.) There images wound up all over the internet, and when they tried to sue the person who put them up on his sight, the court decided that they were acting in a manner that put them in the public eye, thus loosing there right to privacy. -Gabe-