At least, in the loo I was alone.... I think.

One day, while walking to work, an image came to mind.  It was a watercolor painting of the Birmingham City Council building with its flagpole placed on the dome and a CCTV security camera poised on top--in place of the flag--aiming down to Victoria Square.

There weren't many places in urban England where I felt unphotographed.  Especially in Birmingham--after walking the same streets and through the same buildings repeatedly, I began to spot the cameras more easily.

I felt watched and exposed but, surprisingly, it didn't bother me much.  Probably because I knew I had no option but to be filmed or to go nowhere other than between work and the hotel (where I was filmed in both buildings and on the street).  And probably more likely because I knew I wouldn't be in England for long.

When the riots began, I thought about those cameras (like the ones in the photo, on the front of a casino near the Arcadian Centre) and how they could do some good in terms of potentially capturing the people stealing and damaging the property of others.  Sure enough, the police began releasing online images of rioters.