Photographers are not terrorists!

Once again the humble photographer has been branded as a nuisance as he tries to take pictures.  Is it just me or do the Police use the "Prevention of Terrorism" law to enforce the "we don't like what you're doing so stop it" law.  For example who can forget the 82 year old gentleman ejected from the Labour conference for objecting about the Iraq war, he was arrested under the (guess what) Prevention of Terrorism act (you must see the video here).

I love the way the photographer in question, Jules Mattsson, kept his cool and forced the police who were trying to stop him taking photographs to back track, when they realised that they had no right to ask him to stop.  The urban myth of you have to have permission from their parents was used and he correctly told them that was not true (If it was the many city CCTV operators would have to ask the parents of any child in the town centres to sign forms).

The photographer, Jules Mattsson,  in the video is currently taking legal advise and will probably sue the police for stopping him carrying out his job (freelance photographer).  Photographers must really start pointing out to the Police that taking photographs of people in a public place is not illegal and no permission has to be sort.  You can read his story on his blog here.

New Born Baby Photography in Essex

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At the weekend I took the trip from Essex up to Nottingham where a brand new baby was awaiting her first photo shoot.  Nick, (my web designer at two little fishes) and his wife Tamsin proudly showed off their beautiful new baby girl and were joined by her proud grandparents.  

There's something so special about photographing new born babies, it's such a precious time for everyone involved, everything is new and exciting. The trick to great baby photographs is to photograph them as soon as possible, personally I believe the first two weeks are the golden time, of course each baby is different but, if you call me when you leave the hospital, i'll meet you at your house (it's that important).

  


Young Charlotte here was as good as gold and we got some real special images as you can see in the slideshow above, she even got in the world cup fever and cheered on England in her own cute way.  She'll never be this age again but there'll always be the photographs as a reminder of this very special time.  Many thanks to her loving mum, dad, nanny, grandad and of course to Charlotte herself for being such stunning models making the whole shoot so easy.

i-Phone problems

Recently my i-phone has started picking up a few problems when i've been running.  After some research i've found the solution (touch wood) and thought i'd post a blog entry so others who may have a similar problem can solve it.

The problem is when running all of a sudden the voice control cuts in which automatically cuts off anything you happen to be listening to and really annoying in my case, stops the map my run app from working.  It would appear that it's likely to be caused by sweat getting into the built in microphone in the cable.  This probably explains why up until recently (when we've started getting alot warmer) this hasn't been a problem.
 
luckily after googling the fault I came across this link, where apple acknowledges the problem and offers a replacement set of earpieces free ... i've just applied for mine so i'll see when the new set turn up if it solves the issue.

***UPDATE***

So I received my new earphones from Apple very quickly (couple of days) and for about a week they were great.  Unfortunately exactly the same problem re-emerged soon after (about 5 runs later). So I contacted Apple again and again they sent me another headset replacement.  However since then I went to the local pound shop and bought a set of ear phones (without a microphone) that I now use for running and keep the official apple headphones for non running use, airplanes, walking etc.

So although apple did well in their attempts to fix the problem by a speedy replacement scheme the earphones are simply not made for people who go runnning.  My advice, go to the pound shop and get a cheap earphone set but be aware you won't be able to answer calls with them.