Every now and again people post on forums about the hassles they have experienced when photographing in public ... officious security guards, teens deliberately kicking your tripod, suspicious parents ....

But ever had anything good happen?

I've had a couple in the past few days.

I was at the Geneva Motor Show using a telephoto and tripod to photograph a model from a distance, with dark slightly out of focus silhouettes of spectators in the foreground holding up their cam phones to snap her. A guy from the neighbouring stand came up and wanted to know what I was doing. I thought he was going to hassle me, but when showed him and explained my objective and he invited me upstairs to their special lounge for a better viewpoint, and gave me a drink.

Then yesterday I was at an autoroute (freeway, motorway, autobahn) service station, photographing a bridge over the road, very graphic, girders receding to a vanishing point, etc. using myself as a model, walking into the distance ... man in the industrial landscape sort of thing. The manager came up and wanted to know what I was doing. When I explained he gave me several vouchers for the caf� downstairs.

Quite restored my faith in human nature, they did 

Once on dreamstime I got a note that an image had been used on the cover of a car restoration magazine.  I emailed them to ask if i could purchase a copy (it isn't avaialbe in Norway).  They sent two copies free to norway