On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> 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 > that), it is an entirely different matter from taking pictures of said land. > The authorities should be chasing unauthorised commercial use of pictures, > rather than trying to stop people taking them, but that would be too > expensive so instead they crack down on innocent people. I'll bet for every > 1,000 people who take a camera to that place there's only one professional > photographer. But really, it's public land - it's your land. Tell them to > shove their regulations up the hole in their culture, to paraphrase Leonard > C. I was taking a photo in the subway one day when a guard approached me and asked if I was aware that there was a ban on taking photos in the subway. I said, "Ah, you're talking about TTC regulation 3.17? Yes, I'm aware of it. It bans ~commercial~ photography without prior authorization. Since I'm not a professional photographer, and have no intention of selling any photos I take here, I'm allowed to take photos." He kind of hummed and hawed and said that my taking photos can make other customers feel uncomfortable. I was going to continue to argue, but decided that since he could boot me off the tube, it might be best to make nice, so I said, "Okay, see? I'm putting on my lenscap and turning off the camera. I don't want to disturb anyone." I smiled and he left. Bottom line is that these guys don't know their own regulations, or in the alternative, they count on the fact that we don't know them, so they make them up or bend them to suit their own purposes. I knew that this was a battle that I couldn't win. Sometimes ya gotta pick your battles. I also knew that I could take photos at the next station, which I did. BTW, that's a beautiful photo, Brian! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
