Photo Stop

Quickest way to pencil in a meeting Dept. of Homeland Security agents: Take your camera down to the Port of Long Beach (and, I'm assuming, L.A.'s San Pedro as well). Orange County Metblogs' Terry Chen figured this out while working on a class assignment:

I just got back from the Port of Long Beach where I taking pictures for my photography class. After a few minutes there, some police rolled by and I was detained for taking photographs. Supposedly, since 9/11, you’re not allowed to take pictures in the port without a permit from the port authority.

Even though the police guys were pretty cool about it and explained the situation, they confiscated my roll of film and took down my information . It just sucks because there aren’t any signs about the photography ban, nor can I find anything on their website about it. Hope my professor understands why my project is incomplete. "Umm... The Deparment of Homeland Security ate my homework."