Thanks, everybody.
I love photographing children, probably because I was a child once, as somebody once immortally said about himself.
Unfortunately, taking street pictures of children nowadays is a a very dangerous enterprise, especially at a beach, as I found once in Brisbane's Gold Coast where I nearly got arrested for perfect street standards. At the time, I was shooting images of the beach-guards' stations whose elaborate luxury we don't see in my local of the woods.
Try telling your story to the cops - they never heard of street photography. Maybe never of photography!
They explained I was shooting in the the hottest pedophilia spot in the country and they'd got a report about me - apparently, somebody had phoned in about a suspicious grey-haired man taking pictures of children on the beach.
Me.
Are you fucking codding me!
Police: No sir, we have a report and we have to follow it up. Procedure.
Jesus!
Anyway, it was all sorted out in the end, but my God, what a way to learn for all street shooters to be careful out there.
Lesson: elderly alone with a camera spells DANGER.....
