Photos of Children

[_larky]

Normally I'd not care, and not ask, but I'm attempting to respect people's opinions more 😉

I was out shooting today, and I got some good shots of children playing in a water fountain. One of the best contains a boy and girl, both about 7-10 years old. Both just wearing bottoms.

Now, should I post this shot either on Flickr or my blog? I'm not a parent, I like to think if I was and I saw my child in this specific shot, I'd actually like a copy for myself. But I do also know we don't always think the same.

 

[jky]

Post it - flickr, your blog, here.
It's just a photo (and a nice one as you say) in a public space with kids having a grand 'ol time...

 

[Chris101]

Post it - flickr, your blog, here.
It's just a photo (and a nice one as you say) in a public space with kids having a grand 'ol time...

If this was 1957, you'd be absolutely correct. But it's not. Times have changes, and social mores do not look kindly of anonymous pictures of tween-aged girls with their shirts off.

 

[retnull]

Your decision -- but personally, I wouldn't.

 

[_larky]

"Your decision -- but personally, I wouldn't."

I'm not.

 

[Chris101]

Gary, I completely agree that the sexualization of innocent pictures of children by viewers who have less than honorable intentions has gotten out of hand. Mann's Family Matters is one of my favorite photo books, but I would not like to be in the position of defending having someone else's child so pictured on a website. Especially considering the other modern social construct - the frivolous lawsuit.

 

[_goodtimez]

I think as long as you won't write down their names it's OK to post.

 

[jky]

If this was 1957, you'd be absolutely correct. But it's not. Times have changes, and social mores do not look kindly of anonymous pictures of tween-aged girls with their shirts off.

...that's just too bad...

Some will look at the photo & see children playing, enjoying their youth & others will see "tween-aged girls with their shirts off" (this isn't directed @ you btw, but rather a generalization).

Aren't we feeding into the paranoia when we refrain from posting these innocent moments of everyday life?

What's next? ...can't post photos of people wearing sandals because it'll be used by folks with severe foot fetishes...? 😱

 

[Michael Markey]

Oh and in case you feel like going down to your local cricket ground for some sporting shots be warned.
The English Cricket Board have forbidden photography on the grounds that their youth teams may be playing.
Happened to me at my local ground.
"Can`t take photos here mate ...kids"
I had a diplomatic word with the club chairman who agreed that the ECB had put them in a difficult position.They couldn`t even take pictures of their own kids.
He let me continue provided that I didn`t point the camera where there were any kids .

 

[Sparrow]

... what a sad old world we are leaving to our children

 

[Lilserenity]

... what a sad old world we are leaving to our children

Hear hear.

 

[Michael Markey]

Indeed so Stewart.
Good day today .
Sorry that you couldn`t make it... oh the carnival was cancelled so we made do.

 

[Sparrow]

Ha! been limping about all day but the swelling looks to be subsiding now, I spotted the "make do" photos elsewhere ... mostly pretty young women then?

 

[John Lawrence]

They couldn`t even take pictures of their own kids.

Some relatives of mine told me it's a similar situation at the primary school their kids attend. There's a blanket ban on all photography / video within the school grounds, and only the parents are allowed to attend sports days, Christmas shows etc. (where of course they can't take pictures) - no grandparents or other relatives.

John

 

[dave lackey]

Hmmm.... it was not like that when I spent a good bit of time in the UK about 12 years ago..or did I miss something? It appears that the British government has gone mad. So sad.😡

As a grandparent, I am thankful to live here in the USA where we can and do take photographs of our own children whenever and wherever we damned well please. It is even expected of us almost as if we are the parents, and why not? We have the children at our own house more than they are at home because the parents work. Take to school, pick up at school, sick days, spring, summer, fall and winter breaks, holidays, special events, etc.

Sorry to hear that Big Brother is so rampant.

 

[John Lawrence]

Hmmm.... it was not like that when I spent a good bit of time in the UK about 12 years ago..or did I miss something? It appears that the British government has gone mad. So sad.😡

I think it's really happened in the last eight or nine years, possibly mirroring the rise of the internet.

John

 

[dfoo]

Damn, I was in the Philippenes a couple of weeks on the beach.

Me: Click
Woman: Are you taking pictures of my children?
Me: Yes
Woman: Great, I love it when people take pictures of my children! Children pose!
Me: Click

It was refreshing to be a country where people actually want you take pictures of them (including their children).

BTW, I also don't object when people take pictures of me or my children. Here is a shot that was taken of us and our friends by a street photographer a few weeks ago in Shanghai. Stan (the guy with the baby) approached the guy after he took a few shots and asked him to send them to us.


DSC_2804副本 by mjnewhook, on Flickr

 

[Michael Markey]

That about sums it up Dave....gone mad.
I`ve heard it ref to as the liberal tyranny in the newspapers.
Don`t know where it all started or what the evidence is for what is often a rather punitive approach.

 

[btgc]

How could they play without bottoms? Oh, you mean dress...

EDIT: reading about photography constraints in UK I think - look, what beans with potatos and two taps over sink can do with a nation 🙂 Pity world goes right where Orwell has described.

 

[_larky]

Well this is depressing.