New orders: The message to Police officers

[Graham_of_Rainham]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1834626.html

[ekkl]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

Most police I know use their head when dealing with photographers. It is the PCSOs who have no idea, or they want confrontation of some kind.

I don't know how I would react if a PCSO came up to me in a public place and asked what I was doing!

[Graham_of_Rainham]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

Most police I know use their head when dealing with photographers. It is the PCSOs who have no idea, or they want confrontation of some kind.

I don't know how I would react if a PCSO came up to me in a public place and asked what I was doing!

Hopefully it will not happen any more while acting as a photographer.

I'm always VERY respectfull, VERY polite, and tell anyone who asks me "what I'm doing" all about the pictures that I'm creating and how there is a juxtaposition of subject elements that exist with the composition, that is formulated out of studying the ......

If that don't do it..

Explaining reciprocity compensation and HDR techniques, invariably does the trick...

So far I've only been stopped by "Security" staff and as soon as they say "You can't" or "Stop", I become VERY assertive, and explain that they have been wrongly trained, and that while they are only doing what they are told, they are wrong to do so.

My record is four times in one day (in the City & around the Tower of London) including spending a good 20 minutes talking to a "head of security", who I offered to enlighten, in exchange for him buying me a coffee...

I'm never confrontational and use repetition of facts, which is disarming to most, and works well for me, but has never got me a coffee

SO: Lets look forward to some some crisp, cold winter mornings in London when the light is at its best and there's no one about who's bothered what you are doing

[Ian]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

In our local shopping area in the town centre (Hemel Hempstead) I was once approached by a couple of security guards who, politely it must be said, asked me not to take pictures as I was on private property. They didn't mind me taking pictures of views that didn't include the shopping development, even from where I was stood on the private land, but not of the development. They did express some sympathy and basically admitted they didn't understand the logic of what they had been asked by their management to do, but they had to do their job.

So far, I have avoided being confronted by anyone else, except a local woman in a market in the Gambia who was convinced my camera would steal her soul!

Ian

[kbtimages]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1834626.html

Great news isn't it

[Ian]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

Great news isn't it

I just hope it sinks in. I may well print the articles and pop it in the camera bag, for necessary future reference!

Ian

[paul.r.w]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

and please give the women from Gambia her soul back!

[Barr1e]

Re: New orders: The message to Police officers

Thanks for the item Graham.

I have a picture which is in a challenge (elswhere) I recently took of a policewoman mounted on her horse in central london. The officer was most obliging when asked if Anne and I take a pic or two.
Even the horse smiled for the E-3. I'll post it here when the challenge has been announced.

Regards. Barr1e