BLUE SOCKS AND MIRRORS
but that could go for anything... "I was stopped cycling because some berk told me to get off my bike" If someone "demands" your camera, you just politely tell them "no" and politely tell them to leave you alone.admin wrote:Bensonby - you are responding to an accusation I was careful not to make.
What is legal/illegal is not relevant in any of these cases (and nearly all similar ones). It is a combination of mistaken understandings of what is the law and the suspicion endengered by the law. Whether the enforcer is a council jobsworth, a CPSO or a real copper - the effect is the same. Such photography is not allowed on pain of having your equipment confiscated or being ejected. The fact that you can lodge a complaint and get it back with, maybe, an apology still means the photo wasn't taken...
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The police, or anyone, generally have absolutely no power to seize cameras &c. It is not up to you to lodge complaints after the incident (though of course you can) it's up to you to stand your ground if some idiot starts harassing you.
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paultreacy
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I've been away in an Irish lighthouse for a week with my wife and sons and so have not been keeping up here.
I have read everything and must again before I comment.
I will say this, though, the language around photography is way too aggressive. I really don't take pictures. I simply make photographs of life on the streets. Pure and simple. Humanity going about its day to day activities. There's nothing taken. Nothing shot. I don't shoot anyone. I'm harmless. Unless I'm threatened.
Street photography serves an important function. There's a truth to it that other forms of media cannot possibly match.
If I were to post this image again in 15 years time, it might have a different power all together. It would be the same woman. In the same place. At a particular point in time. Only it will have been from another era. Another decade. But it'll still be the same picture. For as long as the image exists, she too will exist, for the photograph will be the evidence of her existence at that very moment in time as she embarked on some daily chore in May, 2009. It's a street photograph. What of it? Even though I'm the author of the image, I find it rather charming, somehow. It's just a photograph. A representation. It doesn't even exist on paper. It's simply some pixels organized into a pattern. It's zeros and ones. It's family of man. It simply speaks to how we are. As a species. As animals. Clever animals. In a built environment.
Good night.
I have read everything and must again before I comment.
I will say this, though, the language around photography is way too aggressive. I really don't take pictures. I simply make photographs of life on the streets. Pure and simple. Humanity going about its day to day activities. There's nothing taken. Nothing shot. I don't shoot anyone. I'm harmless. Unless I'm threatened.
Street photography serves an important function. There's a truth to it that other forms of media cannot possibly match.
If I were to post this image again in 15 years time, it might have a different power all together. It would be the same woman. In the same place. At a particular point in time. Only it will have been from another era. Another decade. But it'll still be the same picture. For as long as the image exists, she too will exist, for the photograph will be the evidence of her existence at that very moment in time as she embarked on some daily chore in May, 2009. It's a street photograph. What of it? Even though I'm the author of the image, I find it rather charming, somehow. It's just a photograph. A representation. It doesn't even exist on paper. It's simply some pixels organized into a pattern. It's zeros and ones. It's family of man. It simply speaks to how we are. As a species. As animals. Clever animals. In a built environment.
Good night.