http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,72315-0.html?tw=wn_index_5The Right to Bear SLRs
By 02:00 AM Dec, 18, 2006
Thomas Hawk doesn't look like a troublemaker. With his hair neatly combed and a polo shirt tucked into his black corduroys, the 38-year-old father of four more closely resembles an investment adviser, which is his day job in San Francisco. But as his after-work alter ego -- a budding photographer who roams city streets with a Canon EOS 5D in hand -- trouble seems to find him. Usually it comes in the form of police officers or private security guards, who accuse him of trespassing while he's taking shots of buildings and public spaces. "Where I'm different from most photographers," says Hawk, who catalogs his most dramatic confrontations on his blog at
http://www.thomashawk.com , "is that I'm not going to back down."
This afternoon is no exception, as Hawk (his photo-blogging pseudonym) wanders into the grimy Transbay bus terminal and begins shooting its interior artwork and graffiti. Within 90 seconds, a security guard approaches.
"Can I see a permit, please?" he says.
"I don't have a permit," Hawk replies amiably, eye pressed to the viewfinder.
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