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Subject: [Leica] UK police use anti-terrorism laws to stop photographers -- and so do American ones
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:42:08 -0600
References: <C74A6F89.5CBD%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

soon we'll be able to only photograph rocks and ferns with our fancy  
cameras
;~(

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> If you think that's bad, welcome to Stasi Britain...
>
> <http://www.bindmans.com/index.php?id=672>
>
> This kind of thing is being reported on an almost daily basis over  
> here -
> though this is one of the worst examples of it's kind. A  
> photographer who
> has recognised photojournalist credentials is on a wedding shoot  
> and is told
> by the police to stop as she is committing an offence.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 13/12/09 02:41, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And in Australia. I was stopped after pausing to take photos of  
>> clouds from
>> a pedestrian overpass bridge because I was on state railway  
>> property. The
>> letter I wrote in protest citing that I was within their own rules  
>> that I
>> researched afterwards (and they are so broad as to allow for  
>> overzealous
>> interpretation without recourse) was ignored.
>
>
>
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