> > > it was found out that there is nothing illegal about taking a > > picture of a government building. It's the jitters of 9/11 > > that is clouding everything. > > Yep, that's why I got stopped and questioned by the cops one day while > taking pictures of the UN (with a shortish lens of course) from across > the river a couple of years ago.
I've had a shopkeeper come out frothing at the mouth because I was taking a photograph of her store front (from a public parking lot). The one shot I decided not to try for (on a different occasion) was Air Force One landing at Moffett Field (Bill Clinton visiting Chelsea at Stanford); I felt that the chance of the secret service mistaking a long lens for a missile launcher wasn't something I was prepared to risk - the downside considerably outweighed the upside.
