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Watch where you point that camera

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The Patriot Act strikes again.

Basically, the article is saying that if you take picures of public buildings, in subways, on trains, planes and er...busses, you could be engaging in "suspicious" activity. So if you're a photographer, if you go on vacation, if you decide that some random building looks like it would look good hanging on your living room wall, you could be a percieved as a possible terrorist and asked to cease and desist by a security or police officer.

As a photographer whose preferred subject material is architecture and urban landscape, I think it's time I end my hiatus and start going out and taking more pictures again.

posted to my own journal, Baltwash list,

futurecity,

urban_adventure
Pass it on people!

edit...Actually, this really isn't new. I myself have been subject to such cease and desist requests...though this was actually back in April 2000, almost a year and a half before 9/11. I was told in both South and Back Bay Train Stations in Boston that I needed to stop taking pictures because it could be construed as preparation for terroristic or other criminal activity. In each case, I had pretty much gotten the shots that I wanted by the time I was told to stop, but still...