Feeling like a criminal, perhaps suspected of being a child molester, my heart rate was increasing. The guard had just passed me on his round, I knew I had a couple of minutes before he would be back. So I did it. I reached for my camera. I quickly shot a few frames. Then some more. I had photographed my own daughter.
Restrictions on photography are nothing new, and there seem to be no limits to the silliness. At Frognerbadet, an outdoor swimming pool set in a park in central Oslo, lifeguards regularly take action to prevent parents photographing their own children. The same entity, Friluftsetaten, also look after public beaches in Oslo, but has no restrictions on photography there. However by putting a fence around Frognerbadet swimming pool, it would seem someone feel they have powers that includes preventing people from doing something that is legal in all other public places. I am not going to ramble on about the legal issues here (though I am pretty sure Friluftsetaten wouldn't have a legal basis for their ban). But as a parent I reserve the right to photograph my own child during key moments in her life.
For further reading, here is a link to a case where British parents won the right to photograph their children at school events.
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