Forums › Forums › Farktography General Chat › This week’s contest › 11-16-11 – You Can’t Fight City Hall
- This topic has 114 replies, 26 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 5 months ago by
gambitsgirl.
-
AuthorPosts
-
October 29, 2011 at 6:12 pm #2454
Elsinore
KeymasterPhotos of government buildings; including but not limited to City Hall, State Capitol, National Capitol, Department buildings, Fire Department, Sewer and Water, whatever… as long as it’s owned by a government or has some government purpose.
Theme suggestion kudos go to Yugoboy!
October 29, 2011 at 11:55 pm #41772aspidites
ParticipantOooooo this should be fun…Got taken down to the station for taking pics of the federal building downtown. Guess I can go for a repeat offender with the statehouse 😈
October 31, 2011 at 9:40 am #41773gambitsgirl
ParticipantOver/Under on how many of us get arrested and pounded down taking photos of city buildings? 😀
October 31, 2011 at 9:51 am #41774fluffybunny
ParticipantCan we have a badge or decoder ring or press credentials or something issued by Farktography?
“It’s OK. I’m with the press.”
October 31, 2011 at 11:29 am #41775Yugoboy
ParticipantCan we have a badge or decoder ring or press credentials or something issued by Farktography?
“It’s OK. I’m with the press.”
Funny… we had this discussion not long ago. It’s possible to get press credentials from some police departments as a “blogger” journalist.
Or, you could just print out this page and have it with you.
October 31, 2011 at 11:47 am #41776ParticipantYeah, I do carry printouts. Mostly to remind me what the contest is.
I also carry this guys summary, but again mostly for me. I can’t imagine whipping it out in response to a LEOs questions would go over well.
October 31, 2011 at 1:07 pm #41777Pope_Larry_II
ParticipantI can’t say I’ve ever been hassled taking pictures of any buidlings, public or private, and I’ve taken a lot of pictures of buildings (mostly for work).
October 31, 2011 at 6:03 pm #41778Kestrana
Participantfluffybunny that’s an excellent guide we’ve referenced here before. I’d encourage anyone who is concerned about taking photos in public (especially in an urban non-tourist setting) to be familiar with it although I hope no one gets hassled for Farktography themes.
October 31, 2011 at 8:44 pm #41779ParticipantI had two squad cars dispatched to investigate me while I was using a parking garage to get some elevation. They just asked me to stop and were otherwise reasonable. It was private property so I was in the wrong. It was also not long after 9/11 so there was that. That experience inspired me to acquire a little knowledge in the area just as a CYA.
November 1, 2011 at 5:19 am #41780oddmind
ParticipantI was “inside” the Federal Building in Hilo, Hawaii, taking pictures of the awesome old doors, banisters, etc. Security came over and told me (nicely) that photography wasn’t allowed “inside,” but that I could take pictures from the street if I wished. I put “inside” in quotes, because the hallways of the Hilo Federal Building only have walls on three sides, the fourth being open to the courtyard, which is itself open to the street. I walked out to the street, and took some of the same photos, although with the lens zoomed out more. Security agreed with me that it was a silly rule.
November 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm #41781Farktographer
ParticipantOne thing I’m happy about with shooting in the UK – total rights to photograph things so long as you’re on public ground. Still, I’d rather not have the cops called on me if I can avoid it 😉
November 1, 2011 at 9:48 pm #41782ParticipantYou actually do have the same rights in the U.S. but if you’re on government or privately owned property, they have the right to limit or prohibit photography. I think the confusion is dual-sided; people sometimes don’t realize that publicly accessible places like a train station or museum does have the right to limit photography inside but many low-level security and law enforcement officials don’t realize you can’t make a law to prevent photography of things like bridges because they are in the public domain, nor is there any legal right to confiscate film/sd cards/delete photos.
The .pdf fluffybunny linked makes a great point about how photography hasn’t been involved in any modern terrorism acts, nor would it have helped them, and with the proliferation of high quality cell phone cameras anyone who did want to take photos of something for nefarious purposes would be unlikely to drag around the attention grabbing DSLR and 400mm L glass.
November 7, 2011 at 11:49 pm #41783Yoyo
ParticipantThe .pdf fluffybunny linked makes a great point about how photography hasn’t been involved in any modern terrorism acts, nor would it have helped them, and with the proliferation of high quality cell phone cameras anyone who did want to take photos of something for nefarious purposes would be unlikely to drag around the attention grabbing DSLR and 400mm L glass.
Shah Massoud (aka Shir Panjshir) would disagree about the photography/terrorism link if two Al Qaida operatives didn’t assassinate him on 9/9/01 with a bomb disguised as a video-camera while they pretended to be journalists seeking an interview.
Regarding law enforcement type personnel, they probably don’t know that they’re not allowed to confiscate images or videos. And we’ve got the guns. (I was investigating officer into an incident where a US soldier received a video tape from a local TV station cameraman.)
November 8, 2011 at 2:01 am #41784November 8, 2011 at 2:34 am #41785ParticipantDisguising a bomb as a camera is not exactly the same as having a terrorist taking pictures of a bridge with a dslr in order to determine how to blow it up, which is the reasoning that’s been used to stop people like us from practicing photography in perfectly legal ways.
-
AuthorPosts
- The topic ‘11-16-11 – You Can’t Fight City Hall’ is closed to new replies.