My response to that would have been….unkind.

I’m somewhat lucky in that my physical size means people don’t pipe up too much, though that’s changing as the uk weirdly falls into the belief that nobody would ever punch them in the face (not that anyone should, but let’s not act like it doesn’t happen).

I once shot an incredibly beautiful photo of a child sitting on mum’s lap behind a booth at a farmers market in the USA. She was looking down lovingly and the child reached up with both hands to take her face. It was ADORABLE. she freaked out. Badly. I tried to show her the photo and she was basically shouting paedo and a crowd was forming. I called the police for her.

She would have absolutely loved that photo if she had just been a bit more calm.

Parents need to worry about the person with a 600mm telephoto, IF ANYONE WHICH IS UNLIKELY, not the guy with a Fuji x and 23mm trying to practise street photography.

In the uk there are laws about showing children’s faces online, Tarrant there? Not that it precludes the photo.

Next stop is the tyrants of London telling you that even standing on public property you can’t photograph “their” building. I bluntly tell them to leave me alone, if they harass me I call the police and start filming them personally.

If you’re not doing the pap and leveraging the public street argument to shoot over hedges at people sunbathing I don’t see an issue. Street photography is and always has been a great form of art, expression, and record of life. 0 issues - though in the uk there are laws about children I think , faces have to be obscured. Double check that.