My daughter is an amateur photographer but she has some pretty sophisticated camera equipment. I’ve never seen her use her phone or IPad to take pictures. She also has an 11 year old and a 9 year old and wouldn’t leave them for a minute to travel alone, abroad. This story stinks to high heaven.
I think she thought she had found a way to make some substantial money.
Phone cameras are great and getting better but any serious amateur photographer would have an SLR camera and probably at least a standard and a telephoto lens. Similar to the film camera equipment of years ago but today they are digital.
Going on a memorable first overseas trip for the purported reason of picture taking and using only a phone camera is beyond ridiculous. She could have bought (or charged) a low-end SLR digital camera for a few hundred dollars.
Yes. I assumed from the moment I heard of it either she was nuts, in love with a crazed muslim, or involved in crime or terrorism. A normal person would not do this.
My wife is an amateur photographer too. When we went to Europe on vacation she brought a separate carry-on bag with her cameras and her set of lenses, plus other equipment, and checked her tripod.
Sarai Sierra was a photography enthusiast like President Obama is a skeet enthusiast.