Police delete tourists photos

Yes you have guessed it, it was "to prevent terrorism".

Dear, oh dear, oh dear.....

Photographers - You should be ashamed of yourselves..

Is there no depth you weirdo photographers will sink to. It now seems some perverts (for want of a better word) have been out taking pictures of an empty swimming pool - they should be locked up!

Some of you have been assaulting defenceless young children with your cameras and even upsetting the mayor of London.

You aren't even safe with ducks these days:


www.whattheduck.net

Union Station Security - Oh Dear, Oh Dear

You've just gotta love this video. Just as a spokesman explains that there is no prohibition on photography in Union Station a security guard turns up and tells them to stop filming - priceless! Looks like this sort of stupidity infects both sides of the Atlantic!

via The Online Photographer

Photographing Shops is Illegal...

...apparently! Yet another case of security guards harassing photographers.

Whilst we are on the subject, check out photographersrights.org.uk it's a new website created by John Stolz to provide a hub of information about our rights in, what used to be, a free country. Please give it all the support you can

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London Terror Posters - The Remix

Yesterday I blogged about the new London anti terror posters. Now its time to see the reaction on the web.

Here are some good ones, some more here though this is my favourite:

by illegalphotos on Flickr

This is a great little video that summarises our rights on the matter.

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Eeek! I'm a potential terrorist now

I see that the Metropolitan Police Service - Counter-terrorism advertising campaign asks:

Thousands of people take photographs every day, what if one of them seems odd?

Ho hum, I wonder how they define odd? I should think taking a picture of a handrail would look pretty odd to most people:

Handrail
(Click to view large)

I look forward to a trip to Guantanimo Bay real soon.

U.S.A. Photographers Rights Guide

Photographers rights are a recurring theme on this blog, but being from the UK almost all of the information has been about UK law.

I have noticed that Attorney At Law Bert P. Krages II has an excellent one page downloadable PDF about photographers rights which should be of use to my American Friends.

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Ahh, the lure of the forbidden.

Last week I was out photographing in Canary Wharf with my good friend Steve, when a security guard informed us (well Steve...I don't look like a villain apparently) that we can't take pictures of the buildings. I wonder if they think it will wear the buildings out if too many pictures are taken of them?

I didn't even want a picture of the building, but now I had been told it was forbidden...I couldn't resist! It seems I am not alone in this rebel tendency as there is now a whole website devoted to like minded people/anarchists/criminals/libertarians/trouble makers/ne'er-do-wells* called strictlynophotography.com.

No Cameras (Kensington Gardens)
by 19 Pearls - via StrictlyNoPhotography.com

Their mission statement makes for an appetising read:

Strictly no photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you've ever wanted to see that you're not supposed to. There are pictures that range from the ordinary to the profound. Whatever the content or the quality though we think that each one stands as a little piece of art in itself, as a little expression of personal liberty.

* Delete as applicable

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In a discussion on the Ephotozine forums about Phil Smith being stopped by Ipswich police and requested to delete his images, one site member, Dave (going by the pseudonym of Mad-Dog's) detailed a card he carries summarising the law concerning photography in the UK.

I have created my own version of the card and you can download it as a jpg from here.

Click for large version

Printed at 300dpi this should produce a credit card sized document that you can easily carry with you and may help you challenge any over-zealous police officers you may meet.

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Chapter Thirteen is becoming a real "must read" site for any UK photographer (that's why it is up there on the top left under recommended blogs). David Toyne is producing a set of articles on the legal aspects of photography and like everything David does it is well crafted and extensively researched.

Part 1 deals with Covert Photography
Part 2 deals with Stop and Search

both are very illuminating and go a long way to dispel some of the myths surrounding the law in the UK. I'm looking forward to reading a few more in the series.

Was it legal for me to take this picture - read the articles to find out.

On the same subject there is a pdf guide to UK photographers rights available here though it is now three years old so some of the information may be out of date.