Contraband PPG Photos and Harassment of Michael Amor Righi, Photographer

You want to know what happens if you try to take pictures of the PPG building in Pittsburgh, PA? Ask Michael Amor Righi:
I ... proceeded to Third Avenue which runs between a few of the buildings. Here I took notice of two security guards relaxing outside a parking garage. Standing on the street about twenty feet away, I took two pictures of the towers around us before one of them shouted, "No pictures of the buildings!" I could not believe it. Not that I don?t believe everything I read on the Internet (of course I do), but some things are just too stupid to believe if you don?t witness them for yourself. I mean, there I was standing on a public street taking pictures of a building in plain view from anywhere in town, and I was being told that this building was off-limits to photography. I wasn?t peeking through windows on a ladder, and I wasn?t crawling through the building?s ventilation system with a hidden camera in my shoe. After they told me that photographs weren?t allowed I simply asked, "Why?" To which they responded, "You're only allowed to take pictures at eye-level." This was almost word-for-word the same thing that had been told to other photographers in the past. Obviously these guards went through training. I can just imagine the training video they must have been shown, with an Usama Bin Laden look-a-like snapping photos from behind a bush with a disposable camera. Clearly these men were keeping us all safe from al-Qaeda.
Apparently at PPG you are safe from the evils of Kodachrome. If y'all are interested in reading more on the same topic, pop over to photopermit.org to explore your rights to capture the light bouncing off the stuff around you.
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