How prescient. Only for the second time in my six years of taking street photography, was I asked to delete three photographs of one man’s father, taken outside a beer tent at a festival yesterday.

I would've happily done so because the pictures with no Real relevance all-purpose to my wider body of work, so before so doing, i asked him for a good reason to comply with this request.however

The more the young man spoke about me / people not being able to take photographs of people without their consent , about how it was illegal, about how to him a photograph was more about the landscape, well the more he spoke, the more it put my back up, the more ignorant his views were aired. I added fuel to the fire more than once, not the wisest approach but by then, I had dug my heels into the proverbial mud and was not budging until I had defeated him, correcting, corrected his view of what a photograph might be and how the law of the land works with regards to both Human Rights legislation and European laws, and therefore British law (watch this space!).

I'm not saying we came close to blows because I hadn't been drinking, and he had but I did have to put him firmly in his place, and inform him that in Britain if you are a public place then you can certainly take peoples’ photographs, regardless of their blessing or otherwise.

If you YouTube search: “Cambridgeshire police office street photography” for more info and, not surprisingly, a senior policeman’s view of how to interpret the British law, it would not be time wasted, unless you live in North Korea, perhaps.

f6.8 @ 1/90th, 28mm lens, though mostly I use a 35mm on an a7R or an M240.

My favourite from the day (smiliar settings).