Eric, The gardens that we frequent only have restrictions on tripods in the greenhouse so we bought a mono-pod, not quite as good but better than nothing. Paul LeBlanc
-------------- Original message -------------- > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on why major public botanical > gardens have started imposing no-photo rules? I have run across at least > three, in all areas of the country, of very large stature, that have > no-photo rules of varying degrees. One has a no "professional" photo rule of > any publicly displayed plant (with no apparent enforcement of this rule on > premises, just stated on the big rules board as you enter, go figure), > another won't let you take any photos in the back greenhouses but will in > the public areas, and the other you have to go through the public affairs > department, which I am told is very strict, about getting permission to take > any photos. > > Some of the reasonings I can understand - in a very popular garden, the > number of people taking photos can impair the experience for others, but > other than that, I can't think of any other legitimate reasons. > > How do these gardens handle requests from academic researchers? Are they > given a different level of access than the rest of the public? That then > leads to how is academic research quantified? A "lay" person writing a book > on orchids and needs photo illustration? Someone doing accredited > college/university level research? > > Is this a symptom of the declining budgets for the nonessential public > services like Botanical Gardens? Are they now requesting licensing fees and > residuals on photographs taken of their collections? I've not taken the > issue as far as making a formal request for permission, so I don't know. > > Or is this an effort to start running Botanical Gardens more like a private > enterprise, which as we all know, tend to operate on a vastly different set > of access rules and licensing of content (the plants) rules than a > traditional publicly supported garden. > > Or am I just being too sensitive? > > -Eric in SF > www.orchidphotos.org > _______________________________________________ > the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
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