Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Criminalizing Photography
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:34:07 -0500
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On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Bill Larsen wrote:

> This discussion is all really nice.  But their are certain realities that 
> the "common citizen" and without
> "press credentials" need to understand.  If you are a non-credentialed   
> private citizen, you may be right and it may still cost you a lot of money 
> you wish to spend, exercise your rights. Thankfully when I have been on 
> the LUG for a long time and when Ted talks, I always listened.  I think 
> this pretty much expresses my personal opinion and guess makes me a 
> photographic coward.
> 
> http://riverofwords.net/wordpress/?p=136
> 
> Regards, Bill Larsen who understands the difference between rights and 
> practicality.

The irony, or paradox, or enigma:
can't get the credentials without the photographs
can't get the photographs without the credentials

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







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