> > > On Nov 5, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Cotty wrote: > > > >> It intends to advise its > >> staff to record the appearance, attire and car > registration numbers of > >> anybody they spot breaking this rule.' > > > > Why don't they just take a photo? > > Maybe they are at least being consistent in their paranoia. > For myself, if someone told me I couldn't take a picture in a > public place, > and then they took a picture of me in that same public place, > I would treat > the picture taker as someone committing an assualt on me, and > would defend > myself accordingly. >
I wonder why a non-photographic record of "the appearance, attire and car registration numbers" has a different status to a photographic record of the same things. Is it ok to make non-photographic records of the kiddies surfing? Could I make a sculpture, perhaps like this one of a 17-year old boy, but with added surfboard: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/micheldavid/frontdet.jpg If so, I wonder why photographs are singled out for opprobrium. Bob
