Comments on: Taking Photos: Know Your Rights

By: Emon

Emon — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:28:14 +0000

Thanks for visiting, Sime! Don’t mind the link from DPS at all. Geez, if an elderly couple gets all that ‘attention’ what chance do I have?

By: Sime

Sime — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:53:42 +0000

Hey there, Hope you don’t mind… We have recently had a good old conversation on this topic over at digital photography school forums… it’s here [hope you don't mind the link, please feel free to delete if i've overstepped the bounds of friendship...lol]

I feel pretty strongly about it, as you will see in the thread… there was another one a couple days later about an elderly couple taking a photo in a shopping centre and being told off as” terrorists do that sort of thing..”… um.. yep… grandparent terrorists, hell bent on blowing up a supermarket!.. tee hee

Anyways, cool blog. rss’d it.. thanks!

Sime

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:28:22 +0000

This is the reason why I don’t like taken pictures in public places where there are alot of people around, because there’s always someone who’s going to ask you why are you taking these pics and what are you doing with them. So most of the pics I take have no people in them or I try to blur people out.
I don’t think you’ve done anything wrong… but that crazy dude said.. people have gone crazy.

By: Emon

Emon — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:32:05 +0000

Thank you for dropping by, Andrew!

And yes, haven’t gotten stopped for looking ‘terrorist-ic” yet. Although, what’s to say it won’t happen. Racial profiling is alive and well no matter what people say. To use the park dude’s words, “cuz the world we’re living in, you know.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:46:53 +0000

>What would I have done if someone was taking a
>picture of my kid(s), (if I had any)?

I think you’d be a smart person. You’d look at the photographer and ask yourself, “Does he have an abnormal interest in one kid, or is he just shooting lots of things? Does he not belong here — is he hanging out in a school playground alone?

On the other hand, the fact that he has a camera makes him suspicious, dontcha know? My brother’s friend’s cousin told me that everyone knows some terrorists have cameras.