(Sorry)

I missed the last couple of days worth of posts here. No excuses really… it’s just that blogging is a labor of love, and I don’t always love it. Anyway, I’ve put up posts for Monday and Tuesday, and I’m back to my regular posting schedule.

First, they came for the photographers

This is getting absurd.

A man walking through Tom Lee Park pauses to snap a photo of the iconic Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Another man shoots pictures of numerous downtown buildings.

Many would assume the men are tourists taking in the city’s sights, but law enforcement officials say they could be terrorists staking out possible targets.

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“You may think a guy is just shooting pictures, but if you report it to us, we’ll send it on to the FBI and they may have four or five other reports of the same thing,” said Richard Pillsbury with the Tennessee Fusion Center, a collaboration between the Department of Safety and the Department of Homeland Security.

Shelby County sergeant Larry Allen warned attendees at the meeting to look for people who appear to be doing surveillance outside public buildings, such as shopping malls.

“One of the things discussed in the al-Qaeda manual is conducting surveillance of your target,” added Eric Jackson with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. “That could mean looking at a building to see how security is established.”

I feel safer already, don’t you?

Ten Photoblogging Tips

I found this kind of interesting – over on the Digital Photography School blog, Natalie Norton offers ten tips for photoblogs such as this.

Some I do already, some I might incorporate in the future, others I don’t do for a reason, as it doesn’t really fit with the main goals I have for this blog. But overall it’s good advice.

One thing that I know I don’t do enough here is link to other places. In my head, that’s supposed to happen in the filler posts, which would go in between the daily photo posts. I don’t really write those nearly as often as I want to or should though, but just writing the daily posts is enough of a time sink. Still, it’s something I plan to make more of an effort with.