Nick Miners Photography

I went to Cam­bridge yes­ter­day, primar­ily to hand over my old 5D to its new owner, but also to take some pho­tos with the new Mark II while allow­ing my friend to try out his new toy at the same time. The vibrant col­ours of the mar­ket were a good source of pho­tos, but we were both rather dis­ap­poin­ted by the atti­tude of the uni­ver­sity staff. Whilst I was fram­ing a photo (hand-​​held, I should add) out­side Kings Col­lege Chapel, I was told we weren’t allowed to use tri­pods on the uni­ver­sity grounds. I poin­ted out I wasn’t using the tri­pod, but as it was stand­ing next to me, that coun­ted as ‘using’ it appar­ently. When I asked why not, all we got was ‘it’s the rules’.

Some­thing sim­ilar has happened to me before, next to the Lon­don Eye, where I con­cede that using a tri­pod could be con­strued as an obstruc­tion given how busy it is there, but as we were pretty much the only people out­side the chapel I can’t for the life of me under­stand why such a restric­tion would be in place. Of course we both left the grounds imme­di­ately, pon­der­ing the increas­ingly sus­pi­cious atti­tude of people towards pho­to­graph­ers in general.

Any­way if you want to see the pic­tures I did man­age to take, with or without a tri­pod, look no further.