The Boys in Blue

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I need some fresh air tonight after a day in the studio, so I decided to try my hand at car light trail shooting. Off I went to a very quiet county road over the M4 near Swindon, set up the tripod and starting experimenting with exposures/f stops etc. Was have a cracking time when PC Plod, with blue lights flashing pull up along side me and winds down his window. Here we go I thought, a long lecture about the M4 motorway being a sensitive terrorist target and you can’t take any photos here or you’ll be arrested and thrown into jail for 5 years etc etc etc. But no, he asked me how I was getting on, was I getting some good shot, he then gets out of the car, asked if he could see the what I’d captured. Offer some advice, then told me of a few other good sites in town that he had photographed at night, and we had a general chit-chat about photography. Turned out he was a Tog and we ended up exchanging Flickr addresses.

So I suppose the moral of this wee tale is that not all the boys in blue are anti photography and anti photographers.
 
But he didn't offer to nail it down the carriageway with his blues on for an extra blue trail? :lol:
 
...and why didn't you ask if you could do a 'Day in The Life' series on him and his mates? Or some group photos of them on courses etc?
 
LOL two nights ago I was going home and the Scamership van was on the wroughton bridge. I had some spare time so popped off that way and started photographing his illegal parking on the pavement. He wasn't a happy bunny when he approached me :D
 
ChrisMClark said:
But he didn't offer to nail it down the carriageway with his blues on for an extra blue trail? :lol:
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:lol::lol::lol:

I work for Surrey Police (admin!) and i sold a computer to an officer who loved his night photography. I'm sure it's not the same guy but there are a few of us out there into this photography lark.:thumbs:
 
AndyWest said:
:lol::lol::lol:

I work for Surrey Police (admin!) and i sold a computer to an officer who loved his night photography. I'm sure it's not the same guy but there are a few of us out there into this photography lark.:thumbs:
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Indeed, the Met Police has a newly formed photographic society (Sept 2008) which is very well attended, with some very interesting guest speakers of late.
 
Steve Smith said:
Not actually illegal unless causing an obstruction.


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Blocking the whole pavement ;) It's Ok - me and the local scameraship go back a long way

Strictly speaking he was a civvy, not copper. He didn't see the irony of me taking photo's of him taking photo's... :D
 
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