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Re: Gardens: That's a wrap; Coming up next: transportation
c b arun kumar 2006-Jul-20 02:19:00
Yes I totally agree
I guess if all of us are going to be taking
transportation pictures we need to be careful that we
are not targeted by over-zealous security offcials
Whether it is in the form of permissions or ID cards I
hope all the participant are prepared in case they are
questioned by officials.
safe shooting all!
CB
--- "Mr. Roger Howard" <#removed#>
wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:29 AM, wally_tirado wrote:
>
> > In the upcoming event "Transportation" we might
> want to reconsider or
> > at the very least set some boundries on upcoming
> submission event.
> >
> > Terrorists today target transportation systems
> (eg. subways or
> > airports) and having access in one place that they
> could view and
> > study their targets, I belevie should warrant some
> consideration.
>
> Google Earth is a far greater resource, if we're
> going to live in
> fear of what terrorists might learn, than anything
> we'll ever do here.
>
> My only concern is for the safety and well being of
> our
> photographers; I don't for a moment believe we'll
> contribute to
> undermining the security of our transportation
> systems with this
> project, but we may well see a number of our
> photographers get
> hassled as a result of their work.
>
> C'est la vie... there have been train and plane
> spotters and all
> manner of amateur watchers for as long as there's
> been anything to
> watch... the best advice is to always carry some
> corroborating
> documentation to prove the innocence of your
> presence - even just
> print out some pages from WWP, and if you can bring
> some example
> panos on a PDA or iPod.
>
> -R
>