Well, I've created this page to start counting the number of times I have been approached by security or a police officer and told to move on. It seems that nowadays nobody wants you take a photo in public with an SLR camera, let alone one on top of a tripod.

I took this photo on the pier of the Thames river and was told by a Royal Festival Hall security guard to bugger off because I had been standing in the one spot with a tripod for too long. 'Apparently' anyone with a tripod can stand there for 10min max, but if you don't have one you can stay there as long as you like.

I had a bit of an arguement with the security guard saying it's public access and they have no right to tell me off, but I didn't want to make a big scene and so I told them I will walk away and come back in 5min to take a few more shots.

They didn't say I couldn't come back, just can't be in one spot for too long...

I was approached by security at the Ritz when they saw me taking photos of the main entrance into the building. I only managed to snap 2 shots off on my tripod before they told me to go away. It was a lucky shot too, cos I accidently had the lens on manual focus and the photo still came out pretty good.

This was my first run in by authorities for taking photos in London, I was stopped by police when I was taking this photo of the Houses Of Parliament. Apparently they stop and question everyone that has a 'professional' camera and definitely those who are using tripods. I was told if I had a super telephot lens they would have been all over me.

They searched me and wrote me up a ticket saying they searched and questioned me why I was taking a photo of government buildings. I was then told if I'm stopped again another time to present the ticket so they don't have to go thru it all again.