I just read Urban Bohemian’s blog entry about not being able to take photographs on the Metro. It seems utterly ridiculous that one can’t photograph a famous feature of DC with some nobody security guard vaguely citing 9/11 as an excuse. I did take some pictures of the Metro last year (early 2006), and no one told me I couldn’t do it. Being a tourist, I took a ton of pictures everywhere I went. I had to keep downloading the images into my computer because I simply filled my camera’s memory card every day that I was in DC.
There isn’t a subway system in San Diego at all, unless you count the Trolley stop at SDSU. The Metro is a part of Washington DC, and I don’t go there every day. In that situation, I was an out of towner and I wanted something to show for my rides on the Metro.
In the first picture to the left, there are few people. Not horribly busy, but enough to keep a bored security guard from trying to push someone around. I seriously doubt taking pictures is a serious security risk. The dedicated men and women who patrol Washington’s famous public transportation system should be more worried about someone trying to jump the baffle gates than if someone wants a picture of the station.
I took no pictures of anyone in particular that day. The second picture could have been taken anywhere, but the first and the last were taken at the Foggy Bottom station. I suppose the district name is a security risk, but anyone could have pulled it from a travel book. The stations look mostly alike until you emerge to ground level anyway.
Enjoy the pictures. Urban Bohemian, your post about security guard abuses made me righteously angry enough to post mine.
Now, I wonder if there’s a website where people took pictures inside the Corcoran. Illegal pictures, that is. That was one place where I was told I couldn’t take pictures, and there was an Andy Warhol exhibit.
