Glasgow Set To Ban Photography From Its Subway

Well according to Amateur Photographer Magazine it looks like #photography is to become a target in the hysteria of terrorism – again!

Just stop for a minute and think how are they going to enforce this exactly? Smart Phones are so discrete and in common use it is easy to mask making a photograph while pretending your sending a message or reading emails. The wealth of cheap surveillance cameras, video and audio recorders from spy shops makes the task of getting covert images a breeze and maybe that is the market they should look at banning.

All that will happen is dedicated photographers will become victims for making photographs.

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/05/18/scotlands-largest-city-set-to-ban-all-photography-in-its-subways/

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Scotland’s Largest City Set To Ban All Photography in Its Subways
Earlier today Amateur Photographer reported that the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) in Glasgow, Scotland is set to impose a series of bylaws for the cities transport, including a ban in s…

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All photographers in London should read this, in fact if you are in the UK you should…

All photographers in London should read this, in fact if you are in the UK you should too #photography

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The Met Want To Suck Up All Your Data
The Met, London's police force, is buying "mobile device data extraction" devices that can suck all the data out of your phone "in minutes" — that's where you've been,…

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Media Win Dale Farm Battle

The police claimed they needed the footage from organisations like the BBC and BSkyB to pursue prosecutions. So they want to use media footage, which in turn then puts journalists at risk in future protests.

Journalism is not about spying for the police or providing the evidence for them; they have their own teams for that. Further Journalists sometimes need to protect their source of information whether it be a person or tip off. #photography

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-18102057

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Media win Dale Farm film battle
Media organisations win a High Court battle over police orders to relinquish film of the evictions from the Essex traveller site.

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Bruce Gilden – always the tough task master including the jury of the Oskar Barnack…

Bruce Gilden – always the tough task master including the jury of the Oskar Barnack Awards, but hey that's what I like about him, he tells it as it is…
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This is a cool podcast to follow if you are a Documentary Photographer or a photographer…

This is a cool podcast to follow if you are a Documentary Photographer or a photographer starting out

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+Neil McShane, +Peter Cox, +Neil McShane and I have a lot of fun each week on The Circle of Confusion podcast. We'd love it if you came to listen and comment. #photography #podcast

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Welcome to episode 29 of The Circle of Confusion, the professional photography podcast.This week, Neil, Peter, Roger and Neil talk about the launch of CS 6 and Adobe's subscription programme. We l…

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Waiting

Waiting on the bridge at Little Eaton, Derbyshire

Waiting on the bridge, Little Eaton, Derbyshire UK

 

Living in a village is very much a communal affair, people stop and talk, some times it has taken me a lot longer to get to the shops as you never know who you might bump into and what conversation may start up.
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We Did Not Speak

Street Photography in Eagle Centre, Derby UK - Gary Austin Photographer
Eagle Centre, Derby UK

Normally when I do Street Photography, I end up in a conversation with the subject I have just photographed.

Street Photography with a flash, is kind of obvious and people know they have been photographed so I spend a minute and have a chat with them. However with the iPhone and Street Photography there is no need people just don’t notice it as its so small compared to my big DSLR camera, there is no conversation needed, if I tried to start one they would think I was strange.

With all this in mind I am hoping to switch to a rangefinder camera, bigger than an iPhone but smaller than a DSLR and easier to conceal