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Tour de Helvellyn Photos back on Flickr
Like I said in my original post - photos are poor due to my inability to handle low light and piss wet weather. I missed a few runners wiping my lens every few mins. Well done all.
Sorry for causing any hassle - not my intention- I just enjoy the hills and watching a great sport.
As always all my photos are Free to anybody who cares for them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stustod/sets
I don't think you've caused anyone any hassle, and Ian deserves a bit of credit for bringing this to people's attention.
Bollox "sorry" Stu. You are learning your trade lad and there's no need to be sorry for showing your pics that you made a big effort to take. Just give me a shout if you get stuck on owt. I don't pretend to know much about the photography game but I've made all the mistakes that you mention and you can improve tremendously with a few tips from us other snappers (not all of 'em like!Originally Posted by stustod
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Stu
You've not caused any hassle at all. You've done absolutely nothing wrong. You have every right to take photos of an event such as this and share them on the internet.
It looked like a stinking day weather wise and it sounds like the Sport Sunday photographer just got a bit soggy and peed off. I hope that on reflection they'll regret sending you that email and I hope an apology will be forthcoming. They have a right to take photos and try and sell them, but those rights don't extend any further than anyone elses who chooses to share them for free.
One of the great thing in fell running over the past 10 years or so is that photos are now available whereas once they was hardly anyone taking them and there was no good way of sharing them. This is a good time to thank all those photographers that have shared all their photos over the years.
Keep up the good work
Harry
Well said 'arry lad!
I don't know who was out there for Sport Sunday, but their pics aren't much cop for someone trying to make a living out of photography. I'm sure they'll plead weather conditions blah, blah, blah....
I think its time to get back onto the running side of things and offer congrats to Kim C who won for a second year and in doing so broke the course record!!
I think the first lady was Tom Gibbs wife.
In reply to all the one sided comments on http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2572280
We had contacted Nav4 and had their expressed invitation to attend and photograph this event.
When we saw that stustod had placed quite a number of pics on fliker we asked (not snottly) if he would take them down to give us a chance to earn our living to which he kindly agreed.
It appears that what has upset people mostly is that sustod received a "snotty" messagefrom us, I can assure you that Laura has never written a "snotty" message in her life.
The comments from IWC about the lazy photographer 10 meters from the road pretending to be a marshall in a high vis jacket I find particulary insulting. We not only covered Dunmail Rise but were also just before checkpoint 3 and the driving time meant that we may have only just arrived when IWC went past me but he would have pasted my wife half way up the fellside on the way upto Grisdale Tarn.
I was on the route that ran parallel with the road at a gate. I had been a quarter of a mile into the route but when it became apparent that runners (not all of them) were taking the more direct line but then having to retrace their steps (not all of them, some were crossing the beck) I decided to try and guide them to the safer route. Many thanked me for doing so.
I had been advised by my wife who was up the fellside that the beck was in flood and runners were having to retrace their steps so they could cross.
Sportsunday wear hi vis as a safety measure, we dont want anyone running into us because they could not see us. Not only do we not want to be hurt but we dont want anyone else hurt either. Sorry if this basic common sense safty measure offends.
As for pretending to be a marshall, give me a break. Too suggest I was trying to divert runners just so I could photograph them is comtemptable.
Our stance is that we do not own the fells and and anyone is entitled to go and do as the feel, all we would ask (and did) is the chance to do our job and earn our living. We were as I said asked to cover this by the RO.
In the past we have helped people in running events by calling them back when they have gone wrong and pointing them right when they are mistaken.
We have both been hurt by these comments by uninformed people.
You have absolutely no right to ask anyone to take their pics down...ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER!
I've never heard a bigger bunch of excuses (with plenty of spelling mistakes to boot!).
'appy Christmas!
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