Hi Pete,
First of all great shot as always. We have meet a few times around Liverpool (I'm the one who called you for advice on the 10-20mm Sigma lens). I rarely leave comments but felt compelled to on this occasion. I have been stopped here on 3 occasions and had pretty much the same agrument, it is so frustrating, my smpathies are with you. I asked who I needed to get from permission from, and after £10 of phone credit being passed around the houses I gave up! The great irony for me was they came out to stop me because they saw me on a camera, a cctv camera. Double standards ahoy. The only silver lining was it gave me a great idea for a photography project to highlight this double standard. The way to fight back for me is with images that the public can see, if you are interested in collaborating send me a mail and I will tell you all about it.

Don't let the zealots get you down!

Anyways, keep up the fantastic work, yours is the first blog i check when I go online and a visual treat is always waiting for me. I can't remember a bad shot on here, such consistancy and vision is a rare thing. Hope all is well with you, no doubt I will see you soon at some random 'pool event. Take care J