Tell me the guy wasn't feeling that shot when he took it.
"My day trip to Lake Shkopet (some 50 km north of Tirana) came early in the spring. Clear skies and bright sunshine afforded a pleasant picnic with friends but limited picture taking opportunities. That is, until we spotted a suspended bridge across the Matt River on our way back. There’s a hunter in every man (sometimes, in a woman, too). Approaching the bridge, adrenalin coming out of my ears, I had a taste of blood in my mouth – I knew I was going for “a kill”. One third of the way across the river I remembered I’ve always been afraid of heights. My head cleared in an instant. It took me an eternity to unfreeze and get back to the solid ground… The image of the woman crossing the bridge somehow brings to mind time travel. Just cross the bridge, and you will have travelled back in time a couple of centuries…"
There's some remarkable intellectual-property issues here. How do you get permission to reproduce the intellectual property of a guy who, like "Hampel," never existed? You can't ask him. He can't sue.
If "The Beautiful Balkans" became an overnight bestseller due to "Hampel's" sudden notoriety, how could anybody reprint it?
I can't even see how the book becomes public domain after the "death" of the artist.
