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Originally Posted by daveduchovny
Most women I know would be both alarmed and distressed if a random man started snapping pictures of their boobs, even if they weren't naked. Especially so if they asked them not to. I would be pretty alarmed and distressed if someone I didn't know started following and repeatedly photographing me, in any situation. Of course there are exceptions - some people love to be photographed - but you can't assume that everyone you want to photograph won't be alarmed or distressed if you try to do so in an invasive, aggressive or discourteous way. Most photographers at these events are polite, discreet and respectful, and neither the police, the WNBR organisers nor the participants (mostly) have any problem with them.
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I've always been polite, discrete, respectful, chatted to as many of the riders as possible, have got to know many of them from this and other non-nude events, will never snap anyone if they're not happy with that, am always willing to show anyone the snaps I've just taken, and have over the years done my best to get decent quality non-pervy images which I hope those taking part will like and which will help show the rides in a favourable light and promote the causes they support.
For all that, and notwithstanding the fact that many of my pictures have been used over the years by various official WNBR and media sources, I still got treated like a pervert and likely sex offender in Brighton last year by man-hating feminazis. Which is why I gave up on it. There are plenty of other things to do where you don't get treated like something people stepped in. The relentless brainwashing of participants that all snappers are wrong 'uns (very evident last year with even the press being refused shots) is hardly going to further the causes of WNBR Brighton.
Fair play to the riders, they're always good sports and the 2014 event sums up just how good things can be without the constant toxic interference of the ultra feminist marshals. At both Old Steine and Black Rock beach they were pretty much absent...and the pictures from those two spots that year speak for themselves.