I wonder if the difficulty is greater if you are operating off a tripod in a public place, though I have never had any problem in that direction. Perhaps the sight of a large format monorail etc., looks too
'official' for most people to question<BG> Dear Richard, Yes you are bang on with that one. I have been doing some personal work on Birmingham at night and yes you guessed it tripod, on public land, somehow everyone has now become a policeman. I was even accused of being a terrorist even though I had my NUJ card on me. I said yes likely story, I'm casing your joint, at night, where I cant see anything, I wait here for an hour, just to stick out like a sore thumb, so you can speak to me, I spend time on composition etc. Yes of course I'm casing your joint, and all the images will be sent to all known terrorist for good measure, to add to the ones they got off the net and tourist broschures and the ones, they got when they walked around with a point and shoot looking like a tourist in the middle of the day, security guard shut up. To which I replyed if you have a problem then call the police, police were called, police look in bemusment at security gurad, spoke to me, end of matter. I too rarely have a problem, only in Birmingham, the paranoid city. Man this country is going mad. cheers Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
