Don't take my picture whilst I'm talking...

Folks, if this event is an indication of how the rest of my year is gonna go, it certainly promises to be interesting, and dare I say it? Interactive. Yesterday I photographed the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg at an event in the docklands. It's Monday morning, most people (including me) are still a little sleepy and grumbly in the face of a full work week ahead of them.

Clegg enters the stage, alone on the podium talking into his mike while two TV cameras are trained at him. The scene was interesting, and I shot a few frames before an irate producer pulled my arm and motioned me to stop. I was perplexed, as I was asked to shoot the event and put it down to over-inflated busybody egos interfering with my job at hand. So I ignored her and kept shooting though I did turn the flash off.

Later, after the interview was done, Nick Clegg walks over to me and says, feigning incredulity, that 'You don't take pictures during a TV interview'. I mumbled some half-hearted apology but said that it was worth it. Or something to that tune, anyway... We both smiled and left each other alone after that. Here's a few pictures of the encounter.