Gore Park Street Photography | Travel and Landscape Photos | Photo Forum

First I want to share with you my first experience at Street Photography…

So last week, after work, I decided to go to Gore Park in Hamilton, Ontario to do some picture taking. They have a beautiful fountain, and a statue of Queen Victoria, plus lots of neat little gardens and such.

The area has quite the character, plus a few buildings are being torn down soon so I wanted to capture that for posterity.

So I am taking pictures away. Some of people, but mostly of the statue at this point.

All of a sudden a guy is in my face asking if I took a picture of him. I said no (not consciously anyway – he may have been in the frame), but if I did accidentally, I am sorry.

He demanded to know who I work for (answer was no one) and what I was taking pictures of. I said anything I found interesting (probably bad thing to say)

He said what I was doing was illegal and he was going to call the cops. I said there is nothing illegal here and go ahead and call the cops.

I walk away and take some pictures of the fountain. At that moment there was a really cool rainbow effect in the water. After a minute or two the guy is in my face again (he followed me).

He demanded again to know who I was working for. I said no one and please leave me alone.

He said he is going to call the police. I said go ahead, please do. Nothing is illegal here, this is a public park, and I am taking pictures on public property.

He yells out that I am a pedophile and starts going to all of the people around the fountain pointing to me saying I am a pedophile and taking pictures of all of them.

I said (believe it or not I didn’t yell once) that this was a public area, there is nothing illegal, leave me alone.

He yells more.

I told him he was fucked up and to fuck off and leave me alone or I will call the police.

He just stood there staring at me. I stared back. An impasse, or standoff if you will.

In my head I thought he was going to kill me so I was getting out of there.

I turned and left. Kept looking over my shoulder to make sure he wasn’t still following me. He wasn’t.

So here are some pics from that shooting…all b&w film.