Comments on: Imposing

By: fotoquid

fotoquid — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:42:12 +0000

A like this image for the point of view and also for the reflection on the windows. Great use of the b&w for this beautiful of images…
:-)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:54:30 +0000

Stick it to the man……:)
I had a very similar problem in Woking of all places…the tallest building being about 1.5 stories high, i was so outraged i called the police and had him cautioned for harrassing me….Petty i know but sometimes “the man” needs to be taught a lesson or two, i missed my bangers and mash my lovely g/friend had cooked but somethings are worth the sacrifice….Love your work, inspiring!!!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:07:11 +0000

I like the idea of sending them a letter and a cheque for £10 requesting all CCTV footage with you in it. They will have to supply it and some poor sod will have to sit there, not only to firstly identify you, but to also block out the faces of everyone else in the footage. Cost them far more than a tenners worth of time.
Dontcha just love Freedom of information and data protection? lol.

Alex.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breaksbassbleeps/

By: giovanni

giovanni — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:59:21 +0000

whow very nice b&w shot!

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:51:05 +0000

Wow, awesome effect!

By: Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:46:46 +0000

I must have been lucky or something but I’ve still yet to be confronted by a security guard – it all seems very pointlessly aggressive and confrontational. If you were taking photos to stake out the building some way, you’d do it from miles away with a zoom lens. I have been stopped by people obviously worried I was from the Social and I’ve told them the same thing – if I wanted to take your photo covertly, I’d do it from bleeding miles away and you’d never even know a lens had been pointed at you.

Fair play for standing your ground.

By: Ed Lamb

Ed Lamb — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:32:07 +0000

Blimey, what a story.

I too would advise writing a polite letter to the building owners – bet they’d be very interested to hear from you. You might even get a free meal in the restaurant out of it ;)

By: Steve Howe

Steve Howe — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:46:27 +0000

Just tell them to funk off and do their worst. If they’re self-important enough to think the cops will come running because someone’s taking photographs they’re probably in for a shock.
Reclaim the light.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:42:02 +0000

I have no doubt at all this happened as stated, if for no other reason than than the same regularly happens to me and many, many others in London. The cause is invariably poorly trained security automatons spouting fantasy legal statutes to while away the afternoon, justifying the cost of their services. A photographer moved on is one so-called ‘threat’ less. For public spaces that are private property the issue seems to be more about image and trademark than security; the security line is a fob-off.

Given the manners displayed by the ’suits’ I’d knock off a letter to the buildings owners, local MP/councillor and the local rag. If this is how Liverpool businesses are dealing with culture in the year of culture, it should be publicised locally.

Kudos for standing your ground.

- Security guards have no remit beyond their own property; if they provide security for the passport office they have no right to quiz you about something else unless they provide security for the ‘estate’ itself.

- No one can stop you shooting from public property, although you may not be able to sell the picture if the building is trademarked unless it is ‘incidental’ to the whole image.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:25:25 +0000

Hi Pete,
First of all great shot as always. We have meet a few times around Liverpool (I’m the one who called you for advice on the 10-20mm Sigma lens). I rarely leave comments but felt compelled to on this occasion. I have been stopped here on 3 occasions and had pretty much the same agrument, it is so frustrating, my smpathies are with you. I asked who I needed to get from permission from, and after £10 of phone credit being passed around the houses I gave up! The great irony for me was they came out to stop me because they saw me on a camera, a cctv camera. Double standards ahoy. The only silver lining was it gave me a great idea for a photography project to highlight this double standard. The way to fight back for me is with images that the public can see, if you are interested in collaborating send me a mail and I will tell you all about it.

Don’t let the zealots get you down!

Anyways, keep up the fantastic work, yours is the first blog i check when I go online and a visual treat is always waiting for me. I can’t remember a bad shot on here, such consistancy and vision is a rare thing. Hope all is well with you, no doubt I will see you soon at some random ‘pool event. Take care J