I think that amateur photgraphers, pros, however you define yourself, should just continue to photograph and simply laugh when confronted. The rights of citizens to approach and interact with the public at large and to behave in a non-offensive manner have been established by numerous legal precedents, camera aside.
Like many things in our society now, it seems to be assumed that a show of 'official' force will make the individual cower. I'm not a number, I'm a free man and so are you all. Tom On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in San Diego today. As Lynn shopped in the Ralph's (Big > Supermarket Chain), I went out to sit in the sunshine. As I grew > tired of waiting, I thought to take some photos. Could I make one of > those panning shots of the woman wrangling 6-8 carts back into the > store. So I took one... > Up comes a guy with a missing front tooth. If he didn't have the > sportcoat with 'Security' on, I would have thought he was homeless. > He explained that Ralph's considered everything on the property to be > proprietary and didn't allow photos. I explained that I was just > waiting for my wife to finish shopping and it ended there. 20 minutes > later he passed by again and made a gesture showing he was still > watching me. > Well, I did have a big lens on the camera, but this is getting kind of > silly folks. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:14 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >> This might be of interest to our British compatriots. >> >> http://photographernotaterrorist.org/ >> >> >> William Robb >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
