The reason apart from being lazy and just not functioning early or late; but the main reason for not getting up early or staying late is this:
http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/All...own-centre.htm
Which happens to be here
Just can't get anybody to watch my back with so many nutters around. Also some places are only open between 0930 and 1700 but I have to catch a bus so realistically I have to think about leaving around 1430. Tamworth Castle is only open from midday. cheers
I will go to some places nervously but this one is a no no and has been for at least ten years. It gets filled up after eight pm with clubbers and the other place isn't so good because a lot of drinkers frequent it, often lots of empty cans strewn around early morning.
cheers
It's strange but in all the time I have been visiting places in the Uk and abroad, there were only two occasions when I felt threatened and in danger. The first was in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives in broad daylight at noon - but I was only scared because some American whom I was talking to was running around yelling "It's not safe... it's not safe". The second was a couple of years ago in Newport, South Wales, in the High Street at noon. It just felt so threatening with a gang of drunken/drugged youths hanging around. I hid my camera. I turned around and went back to the car (which was still there, surprisingly).
It's the times we live in, sadly.
Clubs used to be open until 2am, which mean't you might see somebody around just after 2:30am. But with this passageway on crimewatch only recently, an attempted murder here last week and now serious assault causing injury only a couple of nights ago and all at sunrise; there aint any way I'm going here early or late without a shotgun.
Rob,
at some locations I would feel much unsafer carrying an iPod for 200€ than digital photo equipment for 2000€, because I think that many of these youths do not realize the value of your euipment.
Robert
Huh, as a girl I have it even more difficult
I can't count how many times some weirdos tried to scare me in New York. One drunken guy was following me on a bicycle and yelling after me what he was going to do to me. Thank goodnes, he was so drunk that riding a bicycle was challenging, and in the meantime when escaping from him, I bumped into a guy who was unfolding his tripod. He happened to be a pro city photographer, and I told him I didn't feel safe and asked to join, and we spent the night shooting together and he showed me the best photo spots of New York! (We just had to pay 'fee' to some local drug addicts who were bothering us - he explained to me, it's better to pay when they are still nice and ask you politely, instead of waiting till they get mad).
The other time when I was driving in Northern Ireland for my sunrise shooting, approximately 1 hour before sunrise, a car was chasing me and tried to block me and stop me at night in the middle of nowhere. I was freaking out, but I usually don't panic, I react incredibly quickly and logically in emergency situations. And that adventure taught me I can be almost a racing driver if I have to - my driving skills saved my ass
So I only had 2 uncomfortable situations so far. But I've only been shooting for about a year now.. So guys, don't complain, girls have even harder time if they want to be landscape photographers! But on the other hand, you get to meet a lot of nice people too
Sunglasses and live view when possible (in this shot live view was not possible, cause it was taken on a rocking boat). I did make the mistake of carelessly looking into a sunrise without sunglasses once.. still see dark spots in my left eye when I close it I'm actually planning to see an eye doctor at some point. I lost my hearing thanks to rock/metal concerts, I don't want to lose my sight thanks to photography..
Newport is frightening especially near the steelworks as is Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Loughborough or just about everywhere apart from Newcastle. It must be something about me that attracts trouble although in Newcastle one chap insisted that I must be a clubber and that Newcastle was the clubbing capital of the world: I didn't mind the free sandwiches he gave me, he was working in the motorway service area and was about to throw them away I asked how much and he said, 'they're free man'.
Sounds pretty rough to me, Stapenhill park is strewn with empty beer cans and obvious signs of rough sleeping and if your early enough you might catch one or two sleeping off the booze.We just had to pay 'fee' to some local drug addicts who were bothering us -
It is a pity because it is a place of beauty; pesticides have not ever been used and so the plants might have benefited a little, although I don't know much about that sort of stuff. Cheers Agata I'll remember not to go to New York
In New York I can imagine such trouble. But Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere. That must be a kind of very bad luck.
bye
Robert