good places to take photos

[mikeb]

Crystal Palace dinosaurs

Belair House & Park

Ruskin Park - crumbling pieces of the old houses

Myatts Field and surrounding streets - the old St Gabriels Seminary seminary

Southwyck House (apparently approved by John Major! http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/barrier4.html )

Stockwell bus garage

Route of old canal through to Deptford

[Mustard]

I think the views from Telegraph Hill are more dramatic than Brockwell, meaning the city is closer. Some interesting things in Dulwich Woods as well.

[Robert Poste's Child]

I'll have to take your word for that, Mustard - I've never been able to face cycling up it!

For people, how about Herne Hill Sunday market - more of a market feel than North Cross Rd - or Brixton Village.

[DulwichFox]

mikeb Wrote:

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> Crystal Palace dinosaurs

> Belair House & Park

> Ruskin Park - crumbling pieces of the old houses

> Myatts Field and surrounding streets - the old St

> Gabriels Seminary seminary

> Southwyck House (apparently approved by John

> Major!

> http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/barrier4.h

> tml )

Stockwell bus garage

> Route of old canal through to Deptford

Like most visitors to London, Klaus Matzka and his teenage son Loris took several photographs of some of the city's sights, including the famous red double-decker buses. More unusually perhaps, they also took pictures of the Vauxhall bus station, which Matzka regards as "modern sculpture".

But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/16/police-delete-tourist-photos

You cannot take Photos of Railway Stations / Bus Stations. in the name of preventing terrorism.

I was stopped Taking Pictures of Borough Market and told to move on or face arrest. Circa 2007

DulwichFox

[Bluelagoon]

The key is stealth, I've only ever been told to move on photographing the London eye on slow shutter on a tripod, so I just moved back to the land they don't control.

Check the light quickly, get your settings right without subject in frame, lift and snap... If you don't take too long, and don't look too obvious you can take pictures of anything (more or less)

[charlesfare]

cheers for all these guys. went up to Crystal Palace this afternoon and took what I hope will be some nice pictures. Havent been to see those dinosaurs since I was a little kid. Great that such a cool place is right on our doorsteps.

[Alec John Moore]

This from further on in the Guardian article:

"A spokeswoman for Metropolitan police said: "It is not the police's intention to prevent tourists from taking photographs and we are looking to the allegations made." The force said it had no knowledge of any ban on photographing public transport in the capital."

There is no law that I'm aware of that bans the taking of photographs in a public place. You can also take photographs of people and private property largely with impunity as long as you are doing it in/from a public space. Don't be put off enjoying a creative pursuit by a wrong interpretation of the law.

Maybe we'll see some of the images on this thread once the film's been processed and scanned, charlesfare.