Suspicious neighbours
It will impress the hell out of the "Lady of the Manor".
Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes not, but I consider sarcasm an artform. Which is it today?
However, the temptation in my mind wants me to say 'none of your business, **** off' - thankfully I don't
I'd be highly unimpressed if some **** asked me why I was taking photographs of anything .. i'd likely not react terribly well or calmly.
People should learn to mind their own ****ing business more ... live and let live is my motto
Mike
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Join the Royal Photographic Society and next time you cross paths show her your Coat of Arms emblazened I.D.
It will impress the hell out of the "Lady of the Manor".
My god, that would be ruinously expensive. At £85 pa for a pensioner it is the equivalent of almost half a pint of (good) beer a week! Dearer than membership of the Museums Association! Maybe I'll just print off the crest of the RPS from the wikipedia page and tie it to my camera.
The odd thing is that my wife and I have lived in the village for just over 40 years and I do not ever remember meeting the "Lady of the Manor" before. I guess that we move in different social circles (in a rural village there are as many different circles as in Dante's Inferno). I think that she was a bit touchy because there is tension in the village at present over a proposal, by the owner of the old Manor House, to redevelop a site at the heart of the historic centre of the village. They are probably a bit twitchy about people hanging around the lane.
On balance, it is probably no bad thing to have nosey neighbours. We have had a few burglaries and a few weeks ago there was a smash-and-grab at the village COOP in the small hours of one morning.
Martin
Lizars 1910 "Challenge" quarter-plate camera; and some more recent stuff.
I'm so saddened by this, but as much as I would respond to these herd people angrily/sarcastically the best thing IMO is to be polite but assertive.
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No need to escalate it into all things that are wrong with the world!
I guess people are sometimes genuinely twitchy about crime in their neighbourhood and sometimes it's better to respect that and explain politely what you are up to, although absolutely not back down and desist taking photos.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
My stock response is 'didn't you know the council has applied for a compulsory purchase order to knock all this down?'
I've used similar ones to that ... New road, block of 16 flats for disadvantaged drug users, &c.
What is wrong with the Daily Mail?
I could write a book.
How about "200 foot waves hit Cornwall" - the latest perfect example I've seen
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I was a bit taken aback: OK, I look scruffy, and had a biggish macro lens on the K-x, but in broad daylight???
She relaxed when I explained, but declined my invitation to come down the lane with me and look at the sporangia, disappearing into the big house that used to be the village Manor House.
I suppose that one should be grateful for observant neighbours...
Martin
Lizars 1910 "Challenge" quarter-plate camera; and some more recent stuff.