Sunday 6 April 2008

Photographing another Chapter.

The right to photograph freely what one can normally see in a public place is a very important one. So much of what I publish both online and on paper are photographs of this area old and modern. Photographs like the one above say something about us here in Thanet no amount of words can convey, the modern picture of some of Thanet’s civic leaders above, like the picture below of some of our civic leaders 70 years ago brings history to life.

Thanks to Fred’s comments on my posting about being prevented from photographing Ramsgate Public Library from a public footpath, I have voted on a parliamentary petition about this, if you enjoy the photographs that I and others publish I would like to encourage you to do so as well click here to do so

Fred also drew my attention to Mitchell Austin’s early day motion on the subject click here to view it


Photo top courtesy Simon Moores

1 comment:

  1. Jeez, what a crappy bunch of, er, old bikes.

    Now if any of them fancy a ride on a real bike I'll let them perch on the back of my ZX10R for a spin up the Thanet Way. Only trouble is, there's nothing to grab except moi!

    ReplyDelete

Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.