RE: [Leica] OT - student arrested for photographing public transit facility

[Nick Roberts <nickbroberts@yahoo.co.uk>]

It' the way in a very large part of the world - maybe
a touch less so now than in the days of the Iron
Curtain, though.
In the UK, we still often have viewing areas where
photography is permitted, but anything that smacks of
security generally has "no photography" signs up. I'll
be honest, having been to so many places, I would
instinctively assume that photography was not allowed
in airports unless I saw somebody else snapping
(nearly said shooting!) away under the unconcerned
gaze of airport security/police. And again, I'm often
wary of taking pictures in UK railway stations because
of my experienmces elsewhere.
Even in the UK, I used to live in Edinburgh and just 2
miles from my house were the Pentland Hills, a
respectable upland area and regional park (and
favourite haunt of Robert Louis Stevenson). Within
that area is an army shooting range - Ministry  of
Defence property, and as such subject to a photo ban.
As if it is of any military significance whatsoever,
as if it was of any real interest - it just intrudes
on the landscape in such a way as to spoil several
nice shots - I never once saw something worth - well,
shooting.

Nick





- --- Kit McChesney | acmefoto <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
wrote:
> I ran into these kinds of issues in Africa, while
> photographing in
> Mobutu-ruled former-Zaire, in the 1980s. No pictures
> of airports, roads,
> monuments, and especially the Congo River! Not to
> mention officialdom of any
> stripe. Not a photographer-friendly place, unless
> you are in the Cite, or
> out in the countryside, or in the eastern part of
> the country, where the
> regular citizenry love to be photographed, and
> children will chase you down
> the street to get into a picture. At least that was
> the case back then. I
> can't imagine how people respond to photographers
> today.
> 
> Kit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On
> Behalf Of Tim
> Atherton
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - student arrested for
> photographing public
> transit facility
> 
> 
> > Great, now we need a de-coder ring to see when/if
> we can take
> > pictures!  This is really getting out of hand.
> >
> > Frank
> 
> Not really - apparently it's always been illegal...,
> 
> from another list regarding problems photographing
> in Airports - any lawyers
> out there know if it's correct?
> 
> >You bet it's on the books!!  The National Security
> Act of 1937(? date could
> >be wrong but it's close!) made it illegal to
> photograph in airports, train
> >stations, bus stations, shipping terminals, etc. 
> That it's being enforced
> >in post-9/11 America where it once wasn't is no
> surprise to me.
> 
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