I've had a few more emails recently about people being accosted or prevented taking photos in public places. The situation seems ridiculous in certain countries, and I don't see how it aids the so-called war-on-terror.

This probably doesn't cheer up any of these folks, but this is a photograph taken in Zurich airport of someone taking a photograph of aircraft. Here, at any rate, common sense still prevails. There have been a couple of stories of over-zealous and under informed private security guards trying to stop people, but in my experience I have never been questioned about my photo activities.

Maybe we need a website to highlight the situation - maybe there already is one

This is a bit of a trick photo, but not in the way you might think - any ideas?

The marble halls of Zurich Flughafen - again. I posted a similar one in March 2007, just after this blog started

Olympus OM-1 28mm Zuiko F2 Tri-x

Waiting at the bus station outside Zürich airport

I've taken so many shots here, that I've decided to commandeer it as my studio

Leica M8 35mm Summicron

Back to the old happy hunting grounds

Leica M8 35mm Summicron

This is taken from the same vantage point as one of my earliest images on this blog. That was taken with a digital Camera (EOS300D) and verticals corrected in Photoshop. The interesting thing about this one, in comparison, is it was shot with an Olympus OM1 and the Zuiko 35mm PC-shift lens. This allows you to make perspective adjustments in-camera and has some advantages over doing it in photoshop. When you do it in photoshop by using the transform tool for example, you always lose some of the image. This may be ok, but it may be that you lose something that you included at the time of capture becasue it was interesting. With a PC-shift lens, you see in the viewfinder what you will get