Roche Rock & Charlestown Flickr Meet

A selection of images taken at the Roche Rock & Charlestown Flickr Meet:

A proper Summers day for all the photographers who braved the journey to Roche Rock and then on to Charlestown.

Charlestown
After taking command of "Wreckers" wine bar come restaurant and replenishing our fuel tanks with coffee and food, it was off on a jaunt around the Harbour. They are building a new vessel in the inner-harbour for the film "Clash of the Titans" which is due to star Brad Pitt. Brad called and said he couldnt make it though today, apparently he was up all night making 300 Mothers Day cards for all the kids they have...

How many of us ended up with "Photographers Sunburn", where only half your face is burnt?

Nice to meet some new faces and hope to see you all at a meet again soon.

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Are you a Cornish Terrorist?

Hundreds of press photographers descended on New Scotland Yard to protest at a new law by doing what they do best - by lining up en masse and taking pictures of police officers; in other words, breaking the very law they are demonstrating against.

From today, anyone taking a picture of a police officer can be deemed as having a committed a criminal offence.

Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act is a new law that allows the arrest of anyone found "eliciting, publishing or communicating information" relating to members of the armed forces, intelligence services and police officers, which is "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".

If a link to terrorism can be proved, this means that anyone taking a picture of these people face a fine or jail sentence of up to ten years.

The National Union of Journalists therefore gathered together for a mass picture-taking protest, to highlight their demands for the right to take photographs in public places, a "precious freedom" that organiser John Toner says must be safeguarded.

"Police officers are in news pictures at all sorts of events," he told the BBC. "Football matches, carnivals, state processions - so the union wants to make it clear that taking their pictures is not the act of a criminal."

The new law has created all sorts of obstacles and loopholes: the Royal Family are members of the armed forces, so should the law stringently apply to them? Some police officers even wrongly believe that they have the right to delete images from photographers' cameras.

A government spokesperson said that, while there were no legal restrictions on taking pictures in public places, "the law applies to photographers as it does to anybody else".

Happy Holidays

Wishing you all a Happy Holiday time :)

Truro - City of Lights Parade

A selection of images taken at the Truro - City of Lights parade Flickr Meet in Truro:

More details about the meet may be appearing here soon!

Light Trails Meet - Mitchell

A selection of images taken at the Light Trails Flickr Meet in Mitchell:

A damp evening saw 6 photographers turn out. The aim of the evening was to capture some light trails, and the busy A30 seemed an obvious location.

The Mitchell bridge had 5 photographers on it which was probably the most interesting thing happening in the village that night - most of the passing cars slowed down to see what was going on.

After about 30-45 minutes, we decided to call time on the photography and headed back to the pub for a quick drink and chat.

Nice to meet som enew faces and hope to see you all at a meet again soon. 

Tall Ships Flickr Meet

A selection of images taken at the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Flickr Meet in Falmouth:

More details about the meet may be appearing here soon!

Truro Flickr Meet

A selection of images taken at the Truro Flickr Meet:

More details about the meet may be appearing here soon!