Throwback Thursday - How to Dodge the Tripod Police!
Today we've got a fun Throwback Thursday thrill for you! Just for kicks we're going back to our very first blog post from March of 2016. It's fun to look back at where we started as we started as a growing company, and how far we've come. Below is the post excerpt. You can read the full post here.
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Getting stopped and hassled by the police just for being a photographer is the worst and It seems like every other week a photographer is being questioned because of “suspicious behavior”. Recently James Watt of PetaPixel reported that had been stopped by the police over 20 times and identified the reason for the harassment was because he had a tripod and DSLR camera. News like this is nothing new, in January several schools were locked down due to reports of someone holding a rifle when in reality was just a newspaper photographer with a tripod. Fortunately, most of these encounters tend to be polite.
There are also some locations that don’t allow tripods, unusually these are high trafficked areas where tripods are just big and get in the way. Now photographers have to research their location’s policies...Read the rest of the post here.
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