Need to do some long expos myself now.

Soon it could be illegal to take a photo of a police officer!

http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=836646

Incidentally, another case of it happening, this time to an MP:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/4144210/Tory-MP-stopped-and-searched-by-police-for-taking-photos-of-cycle-path.html

Who, interestingly, actually SUPPORTS stop and searching photographers for no reason, even though it isn’t illegal to take photographs in public.

Time to emigrate!

I had the same experience the other night doing night photography, in Tooting South London (quite a large number of Muslims live there). I’m a white shaved head guy.

Anyway, i was doing night shots then walking home with my camera mounted on the tripod, and walked past a parked police van.

Next thing I know its pulled up next to me, 3 coppers got out and ‘surrounded’ me, and started rapid-firing questions about what i was doing. i tried to explain about night photography and long exposures. they said they needed to check i wasn’t a terrorist taking photos of targets.

i did think about saying if i was a terrorist taking pics of targets i probably wouldn’t be doing it on a £20 plastic camera at night, but thought better of it!!!

thanks for the links on rights, will read up on that.

J

Is this really the way we want our tax money spent in the fight against terrorism? Is the UK made safer by the actions of the security guards and the Police?

It is shocking how quickly 1984 has turned from a work of fiction into what seems to be society’s blueprint for behaviour.

(ranting averted)

Great pictures though. Shame you got such harrassment taking them.

for people that have no idea what we are talking about, I got let off after DUI’ing on a bicycle in America in the summer!

http://www.goatkarma.com/viewblog.php?id=12