Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-21 Thread Cotty
On 20/10/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/17/g20-toronto-cop-who.html (Can someone in Canada keep an eye out if Officer Bubbles gets anywhere with his lawsuit?) what a twat. That's being very unkind to twats. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) |

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-20 Thread Derby Chang
On 20/10/2010 3:48 AM, Bob W wrote: G'day all I came across the following article on yet more photography bans: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/photography-bans- leave-ordinary-life-out-of-the-picture-20101017-16p0v.html http://tinyurl.com/2a6j9te they've got this sort of

RE: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-20 Thread Bob W
All very true. And if the authorities were really concerned about commercial photography profiting from public land, they would ask for a percentage, rather than just a peppercorn flat fee to apply for a permit (around $30 a day), not that I would want that to happen. It is obviously just an

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-20 Thread William Robb
-- From: Bob W Subject: RE: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban (Can someone in Canada keep an eye out if Officer Bubbles gets anywhere with his lawsuit?) what a twat. We like our cops that way. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-20 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: they've got this sort of thing arse about face. If we accept, for the sake of argument, that people should not be able to make money out of photographs of their own public land without a permit (and I for one do not accept

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-20 Thread P. J. Alling
On 10/20/2010 2:40 PM, William Robb wrote: -- From: Bob W Subject: RE: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban (Can someone in Canada keep an eye out if Officer Bubbles gets anywhere with his lawsuit?) what a twat. We like our cops that way

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-20 Thread William Robb
-- From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban The girl was being a twit, the cop was being an ass. She went to jail and I doubt it got further than the prosecutor's desk, who, rolling his/her eyes with a pained expression

PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-19 Thread Brian Walters
G'day all I came across the following article on yet more photography bans: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/photography-bans-leave-ordinary-life-out-of-the-picture-20101017-16p0v.html http://tinyurl.com/2a6j9te This one caught my eye for two reasons. First, it talks about a

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-19 Thread Bob Sullivan
Brian, That's a lovely picture of a place I've never seen before! Thanks for showing it. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: G'day all I came across the following article on yet more photography bans:

Re: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-19 Thread Cotty
On 19/10/10, Brian Walters, discombobulated, unleashed: This one caught my eye for two reasons. First, it talks about a ban on photography at Victoria's Cape Schanck, a spectacular area on the southern tip of Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. As it happens, I was there last week - hence the

RE: PESO - Beating a Photography Ban

2010-10-19 Thread Bob W
G'day all I came across the following article on yet more photography bans: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/photography-bans- leave-ordinary-life-out-of-the-picture-20101017-16p0v.html http://tinyurl.com/2a6j9te they've got this sort of thing arse about face. If we