I was at the Giza pyramids yesterday with my 5x7 and had an interesting experience. These police come up to me (the real police don't wear uniforms) and start asking me for my camera ticket (many sites require an extra charge for a camera or video gizmo...i tell them to shove off and they start calling my rig a movie camera and that i need clearence from the government... really, they were waiting for me to give them money to go away...so, they got to watch someone learning how to use a large format camera destroy one negative and, hopefully, properly expose another and not get a piaster...i guess they seemed pleased i wasn't an israeli-backed jewish hollywood film maker and let me do as i wished...i should have had said "shalom" when they walked up and i'd have a better story to tell --- Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Interesting, but note that was published in 1997. > The Patriot Act > > does give authorities powers that were not in > effect then. I keep > hearing about this "Patriot Act". Must read up > about it!!!! > > > > Even if you have the absolute right to > photograph, the police > > now seem to have the power to arrest you "on > suspicion" which > > will be a hassle at best. > Don't you risk ending up in Guatanamo bay, or is > that reserved for us > foreigners? > > I've read quite a few reports of over-zealous > policing - Thnks: "Oh, > he's stood out in the open witha big camera and a > tripod, maybe he's > trying to take covert pictures" > > > Bob > > ===== "The optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it's true" - J Robert Oppenheimer http://www.geocities.com/tr_cunningham __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
