Aw Snaps: Creative Types Serve Land Developers

It's amazing how closely this story line resembles something from a John Cusack teen underdog film:

Yesterday, over 100 photographers traveling from as far away as New York descended on Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland to protest the area's ban on photography. After leasing the downtown plot from Montgomery County for $1 per year, the Peterson Company developers (rich mean Tad character) declared the area private property and prohibited photography. Outraged DC-based photographers (John Cusack et al.) formed a Flickr group and began organizing. Says Bill Adler of NowPublic.com,

"The Montgomery County Council passed a resolution in which they "abandoned" Ellsworth Drive. Can a county or city government give away people's First Amendment, and other rights, by ceding public property to a private company? Today's demonstration was about that question, and about educating people about their Constitutional rights."

While the Peterson Company appears to be backpedaling to regain it's image and is currently allowing for photography with the stipulation that it can reinstate it's permit-based system at any time, photographers in DC are pleased by their victory.

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