Got an email from Flickr this morning saying my photostream has now be restricted because of certain images that some people may find offensive.
I know the pictures that have 'offended', they are the five I took of the naked man on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Antony Gormley's One & Other project.
The email reminded me of the community guidelines:
...play nice, upload things that you have created yourself, and
respect the fact that there are millions of people visiting
Flickr who may not see the world the same way you do.
Which is fair enough but there is a tiny part of me that thinks if you are offended by nudity you shouldn't really go searching for pictures tagged "naked man" and "nudity".
I have of course now restricted the images and written an apologetic and slightly begging email to Flickr to get them to un-restrict my entire photostream. Be a shame not to be able to show people the 2,969 other photo's that (hopefully) aren't offensive.
Oh and because they are now restricted on Flickr they won't appear on the previous posts I did about it on this blog. Apologies.