Adam has a very valid point.
The amount of safeguarding is unreal. Yo may take a photo and may have a childs face in it - then you upload it to Flickr. That child may be in foster care and the parents are now allowed to know where the said child is. Extreme but possible.
As for standing out the way taking photos this could be worse.
I say this as I work in a school, and if I saw someone taking a photo of a school bus I would be duty bound to report it.
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