For anyone who's wondering and not inclined to follow the link to find out: that's "telephotography at distances near the limit of what's feasible", not "please put restrictions on telephotography". Engineering rather than politics.
Unfortunately there's very little actual information on the site. A few pictures, with brief notes of what they're of and how far away the camera was, but no details of the "unorthodox viewing and imaging techniques" used. Or did I just fail to find them?
I clicked around the site, and I experienced vast content-frustration. I noticed that many of his projects appear to be "exhibits" -- they have physical frames and are or were (apparently) displayed somewhere for the public.
Which is pointless. :P I mean, effectively pointless. I'm never going to see his exhibit, and neither is any significant percentage of the population of interested people, so why not put it all online?
Taking pictures of the unmarked CIA 737's operating from deep in the off-limits desert ... that's cool stuff. Why must there be so little info?
I expected one of the links to lead to a how-to. :P
I conjecture that a detailed How-To would upset the Department of Defense quite a bit. After all, these remote USAF airbases in the deserts of the Southwest are remote for a reason...
Suppose the U.S. is testing a new secret fighter jet. If you don't know when the new jet will leave the hangar for a test flight, your satellites will be useless. Long-distance photography would perhaps provide some intel. Of course, if the test flights were carried out at night, as it happened while the F-117 was being tested, then photography would not help much,
Do note that when most USAF bases in the Southwest were built, there were no satellites at all, and hence, no spy satellites.
These days you can be arrested if you have a home chemistry lab. Imagine what the government would do to you if you started teaching people how to peek on supposedly secretive military bases.
It's the name of a technique, not an imperative! At first I thought this was going to be a demand for laws limiting the taking of telephoto pictures in public.
(Not stcredzero but someone else who said much the same as him/her at about the same time:) That might be an improvement, but if you're going to change the title at all perhaps something like "Very long distance telephotography" might be better.
Unfortunately there's very little actual information on the site. A few pictures, with brief notes of what they're of and how far away the camera was, but no details of the "unorthodox viewing and imaging techniques" used. Or did I just fail to find them?