> G'day all > > I came across the following article on yet more photography bans: > > http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/photography-bans- > leave-ordinary-life-out-of-the-picture-20101017-16p0v.html > http://tinyurl.com/2a6j9te >
they've got this sort of thing arse about face. If we accept, for the sake of argument, that people should not be able to make money out of photographs of their own public land without a permit (and I for one do not accept that), it is an entirely different matter from taking pictures of said land. The authorities should be chasing unauthorised commercial use of pictures, rather than trying to stop people taking them, but that would be too expensive so instead they crack down on innocent people. I'll bet for every 1,000 people who take a camera to that place there's only one professional photographer. But really, it's public land - it's your land. Tell them to shove their regulations up the hole in their culture, to paraphrase Leonard C. > This one caught my eye for two reasons. First, it talks about a ban on > photography at Victoria's Cape Schanck, a spectacular area on the southern > tip of Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. As it happens, I was there last week - > hence the following PESO, which hardly does the place > justice: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/Cape-Schanck-peso.html > That's a nice shot, although it feels slightly artificial around the sky to me. Beautiful place though. > Secondly, the third comment to that article talks about the problems facing > male, middle aged and bearded photographers carrying an SLR. > > Hey! > > That's me! > > Who was watching?..... Big Brother... B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
