sandy
it is horrific trying to get into places that are contolled by burocrats... official letters, follow up calls, you name it, but in my 18 years here in spain attendance at the alhambra has risen from almost zero to 3,000,000 people a year! you can imagine the accidents waiting to happen (old lady crashes to the floor folloved by an 8x10 deardorff) with even 1% of those visitors yeilding a tripod.
i'm afraid that what has happend here is a model of the US, you need a permit to photograph in most national parks for example and then that nest of hornets "image copyright" (just try to publish a photo of the Guggenheim in Bilbao for example without Gehry getting a slice of the cake). it seems to be one of the things we as photographers are up against and you need the tenacity, time and patience to be able to "get over it". and of course be able to accept failure and move on to the next idea!
adrian
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