Originally Posted by
doober
It seems to me that you are catastrophizing - you're seeing one picture and building a story from it the way you want the story to be told.
IMO, if the OP, being a very good photographer, was focusing on this one person for a specific reason, he would have put him in the center of his photograph.
I have never heard the word catastrophizing. I get the drift though and no, I am taking everything I have read, compared it against norms and what I would have done and formed a view. The OP clearly has knowledge of what he defines as his rights and is prepared to assert as he did when asked for ID by the PD. The whole thing is like an experiment in rights v authority. To what end, I can only speculate.
'Being a very good photographer' - well, I take your word for it! In addition as the OP points out below. Focus does not always fall on the centre of the print but is dependant on other factors. What is most prominent to you?
Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
I think it's safer to say that if photography
by the actors has been a precursor to attacks real or planned, it wouldn't be a secret. Other than the Mumbia hotel attack, no evidence of this has ever surfaced.
Like you, the authorities simply imagine it to have been the case because it
seems a reasonable assumption. Others assume that the reconnaissance (if any) would have taken other, less ostentatious forms.
Depends entirely on what theoretical position you want to take. If you steadfastly believe that unusual=suspicious and photography=terrorism no amount of discussion, rational or otherwise, is going to have the slightest effect.
You may well be right. Here you go:
http://photolibrary.baa.com/Glasgow-...search=glasgow 
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In turn then
1. Who said it was a 'secret'?
2. 'Reasonable assumption'. Exactly, of course it is. Good point Your statement works for the prosecution. Thanks
and finally,
3. 'I may be right'. The date of the attack at GLA was 2007. I haven't looked at the date on all your very nice pics but they seem after this time. They would have to have made use of them from beyond the grave.