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\"Mike<\/img><\/p>\n

Picture credit: Mike Evans<\/p>\n

An amateur photographer, who requires a carer, was stunned when security guards threatened to call anti-terror police over his photos of the Liverpool docks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Evans said guards told him he was not allowed to use DSLRs outside the city?s Echo Arena, but that if he used a compact camera or a mobile phone he was free to take pictures.<\/p>\n

Mike, who branded the behaviour of the guards ?senseless?, took up photography in 2008, a year after being diagnosed with cancer. <\/p>\n

He told us: ?After chemotherapy I was then diagnosed with severe osteoporosis in my spine.<\/p>\n

‘Unfortunately this has left me requiring the use of a wheelchair and walking sticks and I have a carer to assist me.?<\/p>\n

Mike, from Runcorn in Cheshire, said he had wanted to visit Liverpool after hearing the city had undergone major redevelopment as part its Capital of Culture status.<\/p>\n

He had been with his carer – his brother – on a footpath next to a bus stop at the side of the arena building, which is located at Kings Dock.<\/p>\n

But it was when the pair turned their DSLRs on the Mersey estuary that the problems began.<\/p>\n

?We were approached from behind by two security guards from the arena, which was behind us.<\/p>\n

?The guards proceeded to inform us not to take any pictures of the arena and that, if we ignored this request, they would ring the anti-terrorism police.?<\/p>\n

Mike added: ?I then showed the lens cloth received free with your [Amateur Photographer] magazine? they told us that the rules on the cloth meant nothing to them.?<\/p>\n

The lens cloth<\/a> spells out that photographers have a right to take pictures in a public place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mike had been using an Olympus E-420, while his brother was trying to take pictures using a Canon EOS 450D during the confrontation on 15 July.<\/p>\n

Mike insisted they had not taken any pictures of the arena itself.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the Liverpool Echo Arena told us: ‘Apologies to the gentleman… We have no issues with amateur photographers taking non-commercial images of the exterior of the buildings.’<\/p>\n

However, she pointed out that the Echo Arena stands on private land and urged photographers to contact the venue before taking pictures of the buildings.<\/p>\n

‘We reserve the right to approach anyone and ask them questions about what they are doing,’ she added.<\/p>\n

The Echo Arena can be contacted on 0151 475 8888.<\/p>\n

READ ALL OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS’ RIGHTS STORIES HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/img><\/p>\n

Picture credit: Mike Evans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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