Checkpoint

I was stopped and questioned by two customs agents as I was photographing the border checkpoint at night. They were polite but very firm. I was not to photograph any U.S. Government personnel. I was informed that, in the old film days, they would have just confiscated my film, but in the digital age they wanted to take a very close look at my images on the camera monitor. Evidently I was pointing the camera in their general direction and they wanted to make sure that I didn’t get a recognizable photo of them. Life is different at the border.