Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org

[Tim May]

A couple of ironies here...

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 01:46  PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

> Barbra Streisand has filed a lawsuit against an amateur photographer,
> claiming he is violating her privacy by displaying a picture of her
> bluff-top Malibu estate on a Web site designed to document erosion and
> excessive development along California's 1,150-mile coastline.
>
> The lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Santa Monica, besides seeking 
> $10
> million in damages, asks retired software engineer Kenneth Adelman to
> remove the image of Streisand's mansion from the 12,000 photos he has
> posted on http://www.californiacoastline.org. Adelman and his wife,
> Gabrielle, have been snapping pictures for months from their helicopter
> to show the splendors of the coastline and what they consider
> environmental threats.

Adelman is a resident of the same small town I live in, Corralitos. He 
has gained a lot of justifiable fame for his clever idea of digitally 
photographing, with accurate GPS readings, the entire California 
coastline. One can imagine all sorts of uses, including doing image 
comparisons, calculations of rates of sand movement, vegetation changes 
(e.g., in sand dunes), and, of course, various kinds of economic 
development.

The second irony is that just today I took my first flying lesson, in a 
Diamond Katana composite/carbon single-prop plane. I took off from the 
Watsonville Airport, which is, I assume, the home airport of Adelman.

(I don't know if I'll continue all the way with flying, but I have a 
second lesson coming up in a few days.)

--Tim May
"Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little 
bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now 
racing down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events 
following 9/11/2001