Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Which parks? Yosemite, Pt. Lobos, Pt. Reyes, Julia Pfeiffer Burns, Garrapata, etc. all encourage photography, photography groups, and using the place for photographic instruction. Jim At 06:57 AM 2/2/01 -0800, Oliver Bryk wrote: > >A couple of years ago I had similar encounters with rangers at several >California State parks when I set up a Hasselblad on a tripod. In each case, >the ranger demanded to see a permit for commercial photography. In each >case, I stated that I was not a commercial photographer. That did not >satisfy the ranger who invariably brought an invisible camera to his or her >eyes, clicked an imaginary shutter button, pointed to my tripod, and said, >"but you must be a commercial photographer". When asked to show me the >applicable regulation and its definition of commercial photography, none of >the rangers was able to satisfy my request. When I asked where I was >supposed to have obtained this permit, the answer was, "from Sacramento" >(the state capital). >Making the taxpayer prove a negative (no pun intended) seems to be an >ingrained habit of mindless bureaucrats. >Oliver Bryk