The Rally for Concerned Photographers was organised by commercial landscape photographer Ken Duncan to protest against the increasing fees, charges and red tape levied by government bodies on people doing commercial photography. The protest was also about the attitude of some people (notably security guards and those with "authoratah") that if you're photographing a building then you’re a terrorist, if you're photographing on a beach you're a pervert, and if you're photographing kids well, you know what you are.

The "prisoner" is commercial landscape photographer Peter Walton who was one of the speakers at the rally. He objected to paying Parks Victoria a fee of several hundred dollars for being able to shoot in Victorian national parks, didn't renew his permit and... well, is technically a criminal if he shoots commercial shots there. The police inspector, one of four police officers assigned to cover the rally, didn't seem to find it necessary to clap him in irons, though. This time.

The crowd was perhaps a little smaller than might have been hoped; my estimate was that a few hundred people turned out for it. I'll be putting further shots relating to the rally into a separate gallery when I have time to process them. (Something which has been in short supply of late as evidenced by my PADing absence for a week.)