Thanks Pete, it is the odd one. My shopping bag is light of a sunny picture of 34127 and the new Darts, so here's for a good sunny day tomorrow before heading north into Bateman's B10M territory.
Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: peter owen <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:46:25 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Photographers Rights... Martin i am glad you stuck your ground i have had this problem over the years but very far between i have been in the industry for 35 years and you do get the odd one. Peter. On 3 June 2011 21:28, Martin Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > I headed out on my first day of holidays with a shopping list of sunny > pictures but my spirits were temporary dampened by one 'bully boy' > driver who went to great lengths to inform me that I was illegally > taking pictures of him and his vehicle on what he described as being > private property. Unfortunately he met his match and this posting is > not targetted at the drivers on this forum or 99.99% of all other > drivers, but the photographers who may not be aware of what they can > or can't do with a camera on a public right of way. After todays > encounter I would imagine that most photographers would put the camera > back into the bag and call it a day. So here it goes, no names and no > locations but it was well witnessed by all including his work > colleagues. > > # Vehicle pulls up to a T junction, awaiting the right of way to turn > right and I am positioned in a pedestrian precinct opposite the > vehicle. > # I compose the picture and note that the driver is waggling his > finger and I await the finger to stop waggling before I take the > picture. > # The driver steps out of his vehicle, causing a traffic jam behind > him, walks across the road and into the precinct and tells me to stop > taking pictures of him. I tell him that I am not taking pictures of > him but of his vehicle. He tells me that I am illegally taking > pictures of him and I tell him that I am legally entitiled to take > pictures of him, which I wasn't, in a public right of way. He tells me > that I am illegally taking pictures of him in private property. Enough > is enough..... > # I tell him that I am a UK citizen (jargon for stop and account) and > I am exercising my rights to take pictures in a public right of way, > namely a pedestrian precinct and that I am not doing anything > unlawful. I suggest that he is welcome to carry out a citizens arrest > and call the police or his manager if he thinks I am committing an > unlawful offence but he runs the risk of a counter claim for unlawful > arrest if the police deem the citizens arrest as being unlawful. The > driver then says that he does not want me to take pictures of him > driving, so I side step him, take the picture at my leisure and he > walks back to his vehicle and drives off. > > Apologies to anyone who thinks I'm a trouble maker, I'm not but I > don't want any other photographer to be bullied or intimdated whilst > using a camera, its been my hobby for fifty years and I've never > encountered a problem like this before. I am not prepared to forward > pictures of this event to anyone else. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en.
