Ugh. I will write a comment, but this one makes me too mad to even write anything approaching rationality at this moment. The first amendment issues alone are troubling.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > I can perhaps understand the rationale for film crews, but the still > photography requirement is SILLY, IMHO: > http://petapixel.com/2014/09/24/us-forest-service-proposes-controversial-expensive-photo-permit-rules/#more-146255 > > The article above links to the Federal Parks Service comment page, if > anyone is interested in having their voice heard. > > It strikes me as very odd that an environmentalist like Ansel Adams > might be precluded from photographing in Yosemite (if he were alive > today) when it was his photographs that helped spur the care and > conservation of our National Parks (and in some cases, the creation of > NEW parks) by bringing their stunning beauty to the public's > consciousness. > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > 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.
