If I went out to do some landscape photography...

[Deja Q]

Would cops start bugging me?

I had given some photos to my aunt for Christmas of some landscape and macro photography (close-ups of flowers) I'd done. Of various places and scenes. Utterly harmless stuff, a terrorist couldn't even use the paper as toilet paper. :eyes:

Her luggage was delayed 3 weeks.

When she got it back, she got a note from Asscroft's agency, apologizing for the delay as the Department of Homeland Security had looked through it. (the same Asscroft who wants all requests for abortions to be handed to and signed by him, even if the operation would need to be done to save the life of the woman carrying the child... uh, don't these vermin preach "small government"?! What right does the government have in the affairs of the medical industry? I don't care about R&W, if the adult woman's life in danger and needs it done and you give a fuck about life, it's the doctor who decides to do the procedure to save her. Not the government, certainly not one as backwards and inept as our current administration...)

Hmm, "Homeland". Didn't Hitler use the same term? x(

She wasn't happy and rightfully so. Gee, some bridges, a pictureqsue empty fild, a close-up of a colorful lily... Ooooooooooooh, what a biiiiiiiiiig danger to this butch government! :eyes: x( I didn't know that ART was such a danger. :eyes:

I want to take some pictures of buildings at dusk - no entrances, no tunnels, no underground parking spaces, no power plants, nothing even remotely threatening yet alone useful to aggressive malcontents - and those locales are all boring anyway. Just emotive shots. Like a farmhouse I'm thinking of, the layout is utterly perfect...

SHeesh, the Pioneer Press had posted an ariel shot of a roundabout strip mall in a nearby town, neatly showing the stores and the traffic. That's far more of a danger than anything I've ever photographed and yet Fascroft didn't go after them... :eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Yeah, Ansel Adams was the first terraist

sheesh

Go take your photos - I doubt you'll be bothered. People are doing landscape photos all over the place all the time, and if they harass you, then they harass you. But the more people out doing it, the harder it is for them to do anything about it. Sort of a satyagraha moment.

[electricmonk]

2. Check out this page "The Photographer's rights"

The Photographer's Right - A Downloadable Flyer

[Deja Q]

4. Thanks!

I read it and I shall print it. It's good to know and I have never done any wrong... And I'll buy the book he mentions as well.

I'm amazed at what public institutions can legally be photographed... No, I shouldn't get into trouble and my aunt should not have been bothered...

I wish I had my camera a few days ago when I could have taken snaps of that SUV, and then on Thursday when I'd seen the 18-wheeler rolled over in the ditch, with other rigs parked on the side roads and all the truckers helping to remove 12-packs of 7-Up from the downed vehicle... of course, they'd probably see me and wonder... :D

[Droopy]

3. I say take all the pictures you want to

If some bozo comes up and starts harrassing you about it then kick him in the groin and spit in his eye. That'll teach him! ;)

Seriously, I don't think you have anything to worry about. Take pictures until your heart is content and when you get done, post a few of them here so we can see your work. :)

[Deja Q]

5. Thanks!

I'll be happy to post 'em too! :D

With luck, I'll get a great sky shot before the trees get into full bloom... I'd rather not want to wait until November for the one shot I have in mind...