An image-conscious man and his umbrella

What is worse? Being paid to take photographs others want untaken, or being paid to stop them being taken?

Dave, above, falls into the latter category. He is a "blocker". Though he may have other duties, his key function this week seems to have been trying with variable success to stop Canadian photographers bringing to the Canadian public pictures of a bunch of B-listers involved in shooting a film called Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

And Dave believes as passionately in the right to get in the way of photographers as he does, or may do, in their right to take pictures in public places. The umbrella is the principal tool of his trade. He probably thinks it as honest a trade as the next.

Our old friend Bill Taylor took this photo of our new friend Dave, though the new friendship is not yet strong enough for us to be able to offer a surname. For more on this inconsequentially amusing episode in Toronto street life, read Bill's account, and see more pictures, at this link.