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Subject: [Leica] Sant Felip de Neri School - Children
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:42:03 +0100
References: <BD17B561-25C5-4D5E-A824-64AB6E8B04C2@gmail.com> <52A6D649.1060104@icloud.com> <CEB31EA0-218A-473A-B381-816C07632D68@gmail.com> <52A7A27C.4070707@jayburleson.com>

Jay,

I?ve just had once a ?problem?, I was shooting a children playing and the 
other asked me to delete the pictures, aI?ve do it? no problem?

I think that there are Laws in UK and in France only about this

cheers 
Lluis 

El 11/12/2013, a las 00:23, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> escribi?:

> I haven't shared this story yet, but last August while I was in Weymouth, 
> a resort town in Dorset, southern UK, I was accosted by the beach 
> lifeguards with a threat to call the police on me if I didn't cease and 
> desist taking "illegal" pictures of "children".
> Apparently, some child's mother told them I was taking pictures as I 
> walked along the beach.
> Which I was, but their immediate assumption was that I was there for 
> nefarious purposes.
> I held my tongue, since I was in a foreign country and really didn't want 
> to spend time explaining myself to the police.
> I am most definitely an Anglophile, but this attitude in the UK is one 
> that really needs societal adjustment.
> 
> As a counterpoint, no one said a thing to me while photographing the 
> Barcelona beaches, children included, even when some adults were semi-nude.
> 
> Jay
> 
> On 12/10/2013 2:22 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
>> Thank you Gerry, this is not yet happen in Catalonia, but the society is 
>> of course every day more sensible to this, I understand but is very sad
>> 
>> cheers
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
>> El 10/12/2013, a las 09:52, Gerry Walden <gwpics at icloud.com> escribi?:
>> 
>>> This is a great series of images Lluis, and obviously a great place 
>>> significant in Catalan history. the crazy thing is that if I had tried 
>>> to take similar images in the 'free' United Kingdom I probably would 
>>> have been arrested as a potential paedophile. I would definitely need a 
>>> CRB check (Criminal Records Bureau).
>>> 
>>> Gerry
>>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
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