Games Monitor

Andy

In my last comment I sympathised with you and I said it was fine for you to poke fun at us. Instead all I get back is 'we're going round again...

So I will close with a reminder of what you said in your original comment on the Journal of Photography site:

'Jeez

Why trawl around the Olympic park and then take pictures outside the security screening area of the north plaza if not to deliberately get a reaction.. Yes they were on public land but were taking pictures of the security check point.. Why? To provoke this reaction that's why..'

So you were accusing these photographers of bad faith, of not really being interested in photography but of acting 'to deliberately get a reaction'.

You make a judgement about other people. You have no evidence that people are doing this just to annoy the guards. To say they are just looking for a reaction suggests that this was their only interest not actually taking photographs. Photographers have a right to take pictures from public land so for security guards to try to stop them is illegal, isn't it? So the issue is the legality of the actions of the security guards.

I certainly didn't take a picture for this reason. I saw something that was funny and was taking a picture only for the police to turn up!

Julian Cheyne