Are photoghraphers really a threat?

[gr82bart]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...tographers.xml

It's only going to get worse.

Regards, Art.

[bowzart]

I was photographing in a mall in Seattle on assignment for Sunset Magazine - quite a long time ago. Inclusion in a story was worth at least $25k, should the photographs be included, in FREE advertising value. It was a tremendously popular magazine that people read to figure out where to go, what to live in, how to grow things in the garden, what to eat.... I mean, whole businesses, even towns, could prosper with an opportunity like that. I could cite examples that could be easily verified.

I was in a fabric store. They asked me to leave. I explained what I was doing. Too bad, they said, it was against company policy.

I wonder how the administration thought about it after I left and they found out. Their loss. Too bad...

[TheDreadPirateRobins]

There is some paranoia here in my town (Portland, Oregon, USA) among some of the chemical plant and petroleum distribution site owners about people with cameras. I have heard more than one account of a photographer being hassled while taking pictures of some of the industrial landscapes available. I had a guy at a public meeting who said he owned "a chemical plant" that he was opposing bicycle lanes on the streets because that would bring more photographers, and photographers had been seen around his plant, some of them were "Middle Eastern looking" and were driving SUV's.

I suggested that he ban SUV's from streets near his plant, since that seemed to be the vehicle of choice for this sinister element. He barked at me loudly about how I wasn't taking threats seriously and I asked him if he'd like to come over to my house and tell that to my half-Lebanese wife who is damn tired of getting the "random security check" at airports nearly every time she flies.