The only trouble I've experienced was years ago when some relatives we were out with photographed the inside of a shopping mall. It was a general scene to show the folks back home. A security guard came up. He didn't ask for the camera or anything like that but just informed us that photography wasn't allowed.

I don't worry about photographing most scenes here but there are some places I wouldn't point the camera at. The only reason my photos are a bit sparse in the forum these days is because we don't travel much and I've run out of places and objects to photograph. We have lots of nice countryside here but a tree is a tree is a tree .

That's right Sue - so needless to say, we just had to photograph the Russian trains whenever we saw them
Actually the Russians, including the police, didn't seem at all bothered about what we photographed, and that was long before Gorbachev, glasnost and peristroika

I was there either in 1975 or 1976, I can't remember which. We were on a tour organised by Intourist. My ex was a stroppy sort of person and in one town other people on the coach wanted to visit yet another church and the tour guide said we could for £1, or perhaps £2 per head and my ex said that he would go for free but would not pay extra to visit the church, he would rather just spend time in the town. That caused all manner of problems as obviously they needed to set up surveillance for us, couldn't just let us be let loose in what we later discovered to be near to wear they used to keep political prisoners! We were not paranoid but were aware of the surveillance at times, it really didn't help that my ex had two passports sealed together and had visited some very strange countries.