I've been documenting the ride for years. I find some photographers behaviour unacceptable for years but then I've also found some riders behaviour unexptable too. And member of the crowds that line the streets.
In everything in society there are unfortunately ones who have the potential to ruin everything. This is no different to nearly all facets of the things we partake in and enjoy in society.
I have no interest in the rest of this site, I came here originally years ago because there wasn't a centralised place for WNBR pictures. However that doesn't mean I don't look at photography either. I genuinely take pictures of people and indeed many of the women of WNBR. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think they are legends and very brave. I love to take beautiful pictures of beautiful people (in my view) doing something amazingly liberating.
What happens to these pictures? Who I may share them with and indeed how I choose to view them can't be criticised. You see, that is dependant not only on my mood but also soon the mood of the other party.
People participating in WNBR know they are going to be photographed. They know many people will have their image no matter if shared or simply the sheer amount of individuals. Some wil take arty pictures some wont. Some wil take beautiful pictures, some wont. But again how this is taken must be understood. It is in fact no different for someone to take a 'pornographic picture as it is to not. Again it is how one percieves it. I'm a professional photographer, I've studied art/photography and at the same time been fascinated with eroticism. Some one who poses for Helmut Newton in the nude may be under the disbelief that this is purely art but it is in fact not so. While I can appreciate a beautiful nude in as an art form I can also be turned on by this. That's life. If you are willing to get naked anywhere, and I have done so myself, you can only do so comfortably by excepting that while many may look soon you with simply a smile and nothing more, others may I fact find you desirable and erotic. That's how we are programmed and indeed how the media sells the body to us from when we are a child upwards. To get naked infront of anyone, wether I public by photograph or simply in the presence of others you simply cannot say "here I am, naked and all!" And then be thinking "but you better not get turned on by this"that in fact is the ultimate tease and if so, the ultimate attention seeker... If you get naked in public, deal with it. You either ARE comfortable with your body and yes your Sexuality and possibility of turning someone on (god forbid! What an insult) or you AREN'T. In which case give it more thought as you haven't come to terms with it. Life is way too short.
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