And since then, I’ve been thinking

And since then, I’ve been thinking about the balance between our rights as photographers and our responsibilities. As a photographer and more generally as an interested US citizen, I’ve naturally got an eye out to make sure that my rights aren’t eroded. But I also recognize that with rights come responsibilities, and I have to say that while there’s a lot of discussion of photographer’s rights, I don’t see any discussion of the concomitant responsibilities. Try this experiment: go to google, and search for “photographer’s rights”. When I did it, I got 20,200 hits, with the first hit being Bert Krages’s famous web page with the one page summary you can print out and stick in your camera bag. Ok, now that you’ve done that, and browsed some of those sites, and come back here, go to google and search for “photographer’s responsibilities”. I got 88 hits, and virtually ALL of them are discussing the responsibilies of photographers not in the social sense but in the context of contracts.