LFGSS 2008 family photo

Some useful links first:

http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php (PDF on photographers' rights)
http://www.london.gov.uk/trafalgarsquare/manage/guidelines_filming.jsp (seems to be the root of the security guards' misunderstanding of the issue)

At the time I didn't have a clue what my rights were - and I'm sure most people know what the security guards (or whatever they're called now - public liaison officers or something) can be like, so I carried on wandering around (putting on my biggest f-off lens just to make a point), but whenever I went to take a shot, the guard would stand in frame. After a few minutes of this I got totally pissed off and asked what the (fecking) problem was. "Apparently" Trafalgar Square is private property, and I was obviously a commercial photographer, since I had a big lens, therefore would I kindly piss off.

In hindsight I'd love to have been a one-man protest, but I was a bit too naiive and trusting at the time for that.

I've had it all - I've been moved on at City Hall and various other places for the same reasons, in spite of the fact that at City Hall, a couple of metres away there was a guy with a Leica M7 happily snapping away.

Yeah ! They can be total pricks, and often are clueless as to the law.

What you do is choose what you want to photograph in Trafalagar square, point you camera in the opposite direction, wait for rent-a-prick to position himself in frame, then swing around 180° and take your shot.

Check out these clueless PCSO idiots:

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