Rude photographers

[minty_merry]

 I went to the Troy River Fest with a bunch of friends earlier today. It was a very sunny and warm day, but I was comfortable in my cream classic Meta coord and a parasol. The strawberry lemonade was delicious and everyone seems to be in a good mood

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[okami_loli_chan]

I think the rule (unofficial, or official, I'm not sure which) is that in a public place, photographers are allowed to photograph people unless and until the person being photographed asks not to be photographed. So if that guy was a professional, when you told him he was being rude he should have said "if you don't want to be photographed I'll stop." No way should he have argued with you. And his whole line about photographing you because he thought you looked "sharp", I would have asked him if he photographs people who look sharp in t-shirts and jeans too, or just girls in unusual dresses.

The whole photography thing with lolita bugs me. It's hard because a lot of people assume you're in a costume, and therefore that you're like Mickey Mouse at Disneyworld and it's open season for photos. Those people don't bug me as much because I don't think they really realize that lolita is normal clothes for us, and that photographing us is like sneaking pictures of random people on the street because we think they look pretty--which would be considered creepy. I've mostly run into these types of people when I was in a group, and one (or all) of us told them "it's okay to take pictures, but we prefer if you ask first, please" and that usually shamed them into asking, and it even opened up conversation some times where they asked what we were wearing and stuff.

The ones that really bug me are the ones who are obviously taking pictures purposely to show their friends the freak they found walking around at the mall. I haven't run into any of those yet... at least not ones that I caught taking pictures... but again, normal people wouldn't go around blatantly taking pictures of people they thought were ugly to laugh with their friends about later, so why do some people think it's okay to do it to us? I feel like with these type of people I would ignore them because they know that they're being rude. Trying to tell them off about it would just give them more fodder to take back to their friends and laugh about, and possibly encourage them to start shit if they ever meet another lolita.

I think it's good that you went up to those guys and told them they were being rude. Maybe in the future they'll be a little more reluctant to laugh and point a camera in stranger's faces.

[minty_merry]

I felt like those guys were just taking picture of someone they think is dressing stupid. Even when he said that he thought I looked nice, he seemed very insincere and condescending.

Looking back, I wish I had pulled out my phone to take pictures of them. After all, they were samples of humanity's failures and I would have been allowed to do so because it's a public place.

What amazed me, though... I was only wearing classic. It wasn't even OTT sweet or anything. It was just a cream floral OP with a chiffon blouse underneath. I also had my hair up in a loose bun because it was a hot day.