Re: terrorist/tourist photography

"MC" <qwert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On a very serious note,  if you are approached please you have no legal 
> (UK) obligation to delete your images or hand over your data card.
Always 
> refuse to do so. They can only threaten arrest if they have reasonable 
> grounds to suspect inapropriate behaviour with your camera.  It is not 
> illegal to take any photographs in a public place, even if they have 
> people in them. However, the images should not identify any individual
if 
> you are to use the image for commercial or similar purposes.  The police

> have very little powers to do anything in these cir***stances and they 
> normally only get their own way through intimidation. If you are a 
> legitimate photographer you must stand your ground on these matters.
>

I was recently asked not to take photos in the Smithsonian. I explained to

the security guard that I was not taking pictures of the art, but was
taking 
pictures of people looking at the art. I then showed him some of my shots
as 
proof. Fortunately, he had a good sense of humor and was laughing so hard
at 
some of the postures of the people I had taken, that he just asked me not
to 
use flash.

Lesson: I lost that series, together with others and an almost completed 
work entitled "Derrieres of Virginia Beach." because I had a hard drive 
crash. I now make two backups of everything.


-- 
Peter