camilla_comeau

<p>I've just run into this obstruction. I need to hear a good reason though and if not given a valid reason it makes me feel subversive. I don't want to be told "you can photograph the cloisters". "You can go and photograph a provincial cathedral." Blow that. I undoubtedly shall, but I want the inside of Westminster Abbey. I'm not using flash, I'm not disturbing other visitors or causing an obstruction, I'm not going to use my pictures commercially and I don't want to buy their lousy postcards. I think it's high handed and random and I need a better reason than any that they're offering. If other cathedrals can allow non-flash photography, then why not Westminster Abbey and St Pauls? Neither do I get "It's their place, they can make their own rules". NO IT'S NOT! It doesn't belong to them. It belongs to the British people. These buildings belong to the nation. That's me. And anyway if I weren't a Brit I'd still expect to be able to photograph Westminster Abbey. CROSS....... </p>