Filmed on my own arena AIBU?

[Frumpoon]

I think you've hi the nail on the head

Loads of people have been wandering around the farm, there is a public footpath but only one and its about a mile away across the farm. Doesn't stop people with no manners/self awareness/sense of self preservation from just wandering around wherever they feel like and then just claiming to be lost when challenged.

 

[Brownmare]

Last time that happened to me I was with a friend who told the man to make himself useful and handed him her phone to take some photos for us ?? but we were in a public place. If it happened at home I would definitely have asked them to stop!

 

[Dasher66]

It is rude but not illegal.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I can understand not wanting to be filmed or photographed. When I'm out in a public space and see somebody filming or taking pictures, I turn my face away from the camera or put my hand in front of my face.

Legally, I think that the woman who filmed you is in the clear, especially if her film starts out as panning around the landscape and you just happen to be in her view. If you were out walking over the hills and took a photo and there just happened to be a farmer moving his sheep from one field to another, do you think the farmer could have grounds to object to your photo?

Getting a gobfull of abuse for nothing more than an outraged "excuse me" annoys doesn't really surprise me, though. England is a much less polite, much more noisy place than I remember from my younger days.

 

[scats]

How strange, though the person probably thought it would be nice to get some footage of a horse being ridden perhaps? You would hope somebody would ask first though! Very rude of her to give you a mouthful, but nothing surprises me anymore.

Saying that, I’d have loved it. I was a stage school kid and never one to shy away from the limelight!

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I must say this lockdown has had a strange effect on some people out in public I think! I have really noticed some weird behaviour out and about.

We live on a lane that is popular with walkers bikers riders just about everyone, and my house seems to have become a tourist attraction for many, they just stand and stare point while looking over my gates, it drives the dog mental as well and it's only really been like this since this lockdown.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Another strange one is when I was hacking along a narrow track, man and woman walking towards me, man jumps and hides behind a tree woman jumps up on the steep bank nearly falling over back into the track right in front of my horse, horse didn't know what the hell was going on, if your that scared of coming accross people don't go out would be the best thing rather than trying hide

 

[Hallo2012]

id have filmed her back, as obviously as possible.

rude and weird woman!

 

[paddy555]

It is rude but I don't think people see it that way. They just want pictures/video and if there is a horse in the background well that is great. I don't think they have a mindset above that.
If we ride in our tourist area we have probably a dozen people taking pics each time we are out. I used to hate it at first but it just became a part of life. A small handful ask and we try to accommodate them to get a nice pic. the rest just do it wherever we are.

Years ago I walked past the local newspaper office, glanced at the blow up pic in the window and thought it looked familiar. Me and my horse. Another pic got taken, he did ask and we found that one blown up on the outside of the livestock centre many miles away.


Now I just think that if all they want to make their day is a pic. or video of a horse in the landscape to take home it's not that big a deal really.

 

[pansymouse]

I'd take a photo of her doing it - I always ride with my phone so it's easy enough. It's amazing how may people who are or appear to be photographing or filming you without your permission kick off royally when you do it back to them.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Weirdly I’ve literally just got home and as I was driving (Through a village, slow as traffic was bad) the car in front of me’s driver had his mobile phone out the drivers window filming me all the way through!
I mean I imagine he was maybe filming the village but it made me uncomfortable. At one point I picked up my phone to photograph him... then figured he’d have a film of me using a mobile driving.

 

[ycbm]

id have filmed her back, as obviously as possible.

rude and weird woman!

I don't carry a phone riding at home, maybe I should start!
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[ycbm]

It is rude but I don't think people see it that way. They just want pictures/video and if there is a horse in the background well that is great. I don't think they have a mindset above that.
If we ride in our tourist area we have probably a dozen people taking pics each time we are out. I used to hate it at first but it just became a part of life. A small handful ask and we try to accommodate them to get a nice pic. the rest just do it wherever we are.

Years ago I walked past the local newspaper office, glanced at the blow up pic in the window and thought it looked familiar. Me and my horse. Another pic got taken, he did ask and we found that one blown up on the outside of the livestock centre many miles away.


Now I just think that if all they want to make their day is a pic. or video of a horse in the landscape to take home it's not that big a deal really.

I was riding in a tourist area, but I was also in my own 'garden'!

I have no problem at all being filmed when I'm out, but schooling my own horse on my own arena, I did expect to be left in peace, not filmed by a random stranger.

My picture was taken back in the 80's and sold to an American magazine as a 'typical English girl out on her horse'. The photographer sent me a copy, I must dig it out.
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[sunnyone]

As I mainly dislike needless confrontation: I'd have ridden up to her and asked if she would mind sending me a copy as nobody normally bothers to video us and I like to see how the horse moves etc.If it was a genuine tourist video then no probs, otherwise she might think twice about the reason she was filming and realise you could give police her description and vehicle details.

 

[KittenInTheTree]

The biggest problem with such things at that height above sea level is that the wind destroys such in no time!

They're also cheap enough to replace them as and when needed.

 

[ycbm]

They're also cheap enough to replace them as and when needed.

They aren't cheap enough to replace them every week October to March ?
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[The unicorn]

The problem is you don’t now where that video would end up . You could be plastered all over the internet in campaign against horse riders.

 

[MagicMelon]

I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to take images of people, even on public ground, without permission or warning that they may have their image captured. That's why there are CCTV warning signs wherever there is a camera.

I would have been seriously p155ed off!

You can technically, we used to be wedding & event photographers (not horse but corporate functions etc.) and were allowed to photograph and film who we wanted, unless someone specifically said not to. That would have been on private ground as a lot of weddings were held at privately owned houses and venues...

I dont know about the legalities of this but I guess its probably ok, since its not illegal for people to take photos of your horses for example. Id be extremely annoyed too though and would demand they left! Three times yesterday cars stopped on our rural road to stare at our horses, yeah sure its nice to show their kids (althought often they dont have any) the pretty ponies but its also highly suspicious so I always go out and watch them with my hands on my hips. You dont know what people are up to these days!

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

You can technically, we used to be wedding & event photographers (not horse but corporate functions etc.) and were allowed to photograph and film who we wanted, unless someone specifically said not to. That would have been on private ground as a lot of weddings were held at privately owned houses and venues...

I dont know about the legalities of this but I guess its probably ok, since its not illegal for people to take photos of your horses for example. Id be extremely annoyed too though and would demand they left! Three times yesterday cars stopped on our rural road to stare at our horses, yeah sure its nice to show their kids (althought often they dont have any) the pretty ponies but its also highly suspicious so I always go out and watch them with my hands on my hips. You dont know what people are up to these days!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. We are at the end of a private lane with footpaths in either direction at the beginning of the lane, across the fields (not on our land). We have, over the years had to send cyclists and and walkers back to the beginning of the lane but there have been many more of them 'exploring' over the last few months and those who do make it to the footpaths stand gazing across our fields that are bordered by the paths, at the animals. I stand there watching them, waiting to pounce if /when their off lead dogs jump the walls into our stock. There have been more than enough of them, too. We did catch someone on the security cameras trying to remove a gate at 1.00am. So I assume they had been round scoping the place out earlier in the day.