Juliet the Clydesdale roams the streets of Morpeth giving tourists a guided tour of the historic town, driven by her owner Dieter.
Unfortunately, Dieter's wife (who owns the Trading Post store shown earlier this month), didn't want anyone taking photos of her husband and the horse. I suspect that you were supposed to cross her palm with silver, or even gold, but as they were on a public street, all was fair game as far as some of our photo club members were concerned. I had already taken this photo when Mrs Dieter, complained so I was in the clear. ha ha.
My goodness me Babs, what about freedom of the press?? If you get into bother my Kenwood is at the ready. Lovely shot, the star is definitely the Clydie though.
Ha ha --good for you shame not to share this beautiful old carriage with it's slender wheels and the handsome horse What a comparison --the slender wheels and the horse's big hairy feet !!
My grandparent owned an old wagonette like this when I was a child. Dad adapted it to become a tractor drawn wagon for carting hay to make hay stacks. Thanks for being naughty and capturing this shot for us.
Big raspberries to her. Fabulous photo though. Not your fault that they passed in front of the painting on the wall when you were taking a photo of it. ;)
If people are going to complain about us taking photos on a public street we might as well throw away our cameras. There are so many restrictions already. If people are so fussy about not being photographed maybe they should just not go out in public at all. Great shot, by the way!
I think a public road is fair game.......I thought it would have been the other way around .....the more publicity the better.......I think he looks a little bossed poor guy!
Great facility for the tourists though!
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Thanks for all your lovely comments and views on this picture. We always seem to cause a bit of a disturbance when we go out in a group with the photo club.
I had already taken my photo of this chap and his horse and carriage on the main street in Morpeth. Then as we walked along to the Trading Post he passed again. His wife (who owns the store) came out and said we couldn't take photos of her husband etc. It was almost causing an international incident, ha ha. She said it was only $5 to have a ride on the carriage and I suspect she wanted us to pay $5 to take a photo. Not much chance of that. One of our members who was taking a photo is a retired lawyer and he explained the legal aspect of taking photos and more or less told her that she had no chance. He then said he was giving her this information for free and she should be thankful that he wasn't charging her for his time. Another of our group is a retired policeman and he put in his two penneth too. The poor woman scuttled back into the store with her tail between her legs. ha ha.
All this happened after we had been inside the store and she had told the retired policeman that he couldn't take photos in her store and he said the only way he would want to take photos in there would be to send them to the fire department as it was definitely a fire hazard. She really didn't have a good day.
@onewing Yes the towns folk must hold their breath when the camera clubs in town, do you have a retired journalist and the hanging judge as members also Ha ha ha;)
Great facility for the tourists though!
Thanks for all your lovely comments and views on this picture. We always seem to cause a bit of a disturbance when we go out in a group with the photo club.
I had already taken my photo of this chap and his horse and carriage on the main street in Morpeth. Then as we walked along to the Trading Post he passed again. His wife (who owns the store) came out and said we couldn't take photos of her husband etc. It was almost causing an international incident, ha ha. She said it was only $5 to have a ride on the carriage and I suspect she wanted us to pay $5 to take a photo. Not much chance of that. One of our members who was taking a photo is a retired lawyer and he explained the legal aspect of taking photos and more or less told her that she had no chance. He then said he was giving her this information for free and she should be thankful that he wasn't charging her for his time. Another of our group is a retired policeman and he put in his two penneth too. The poor woman scuttled back into the store with her tail between her legs. ha ha.
All this happened after we had been inside the store and she had told the retired policeman that he couldn't take photos in her store and he said the only way he would want to take photos in there would be to send them to the fire department as it was definitely a fire hazard. She really didn't have a good day.