Urban Exploring Photographer Captures SFNO, Wins Prize

[The Interpreter]

And was detained by police when caught, but hid her camera behind a car tire:

Driving with friends toward New Orleans last summer, Annie Wentzell looked out at the desolate, abandoned visage that was Six Flags New Orleans and knew she had to somehow get inside the amusement park that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

The aspiring 18-year-old Ocean Springs photographer knew the park sitting aside Interstate 10 was closed indefinitely, but that didn't matter. For Wentzell, certain subjects demand to be experienced and captured.

"I always feel the need to explore, and seeing an abandoned theme park lurking over there was too good of an opportunity to pass up," Wentzell said. "There was no choice, we had to go in."...

http://www.gulflive.com/living/mississippi....xml&coll=5

NOTE: As always, citing a link to a story and quoting it does not imply endorsement of the conduct detailed therein. Trespassing is illegal. You can be and may well be prosecuted if you do so. Photographing spiders, however, remains legal. At least in most circumstances.

[tigellinus]

So what happened?? Her group was detained by police, given written citations or warnings, and then released and when they did so the camera was recovered?

[ZosoBeast]

And where are the pictures? Am I missing something?

[The Interpreter]

Just any attempt to cover a story in a good way. More and more this is what we see.

I swear I am becoming an old curmudgeon.