P. J. GRIFFITHS R.I.P. (1936 - 2008)

Quotes from the great man who sadly passed away on Wednesday:

"I can think of nothing more wonderful than being a photographer because it's just you, this little box and the world and it's up to you to arrange that world in a rectangle...What better thing could you be doing?" P. J. GRIFFITHS

"I believe that we can't ignore a simple, simple fact, and that is that the world is being dumbed down, P. J. GRIFFITHS

Just to re-enforce the implications of my previous post

Have a look at this on EPUK, a story about police officers from the West Midlands force illegal actions against photographer Lawrence Looi, 31, a staff photographer with news agency News Team in making him delete images from his camera!:

http://www.epuk.org/News/818/police-officer-forced-photographer-to-delete-images

Who comes up with these ideas?!?!

I've not posted for quite some time now but I just wanted to share this with you all, especially any photographers reading this blog. (Thanks to Sion Touhig, have a look at his blog and post on this subject at: http://sionphoto.blogs.com)

The Metropolitan Police have come up with a new series of posters, that are also to be adopted by other British police forces including Greater Manchester, in their fight against terrorism but how many photographers out there like me, started shaking their head saying "oh no" or other such expression of disbelief at this latest marvel of modern policing that will only serve to make the working, law abiding photographer's daily job so much harder and create so many more misconceptions about photographers and our rights to freely and legally go about our business?