OK, my general dislike of being randomly snapped this may come across as hypocritical bearing in mind that I am a photographer. I'm also someone who does a fair bit of performing and I fully accept that when "on duty", at public events it's perfectly reasonable to expect people to take pictures of our group which will, of course, include me.
But I do get pissed off with the way that you can't seem to do anything nowadays, no matter how far from the public eye, without a rash of candid and unwarranted snaps popping up all over the internet. Take last night where I was assisting (very much in the background and certainly not in costume) at a community production. A number of people had turned up with cameras to get pictures of the dress rehearsal. Which is fine and absolutely to be expected.
But if I'm actually dressing someone, is it too much to ask whether it is OK to take a picture first? Not zoom in on what anyone with an ounce of commonsense would recognise was a private, backstage moment? And having taken a picture like this (and a number of images of the younger performers without any sort of checking first), wouldn't it be reasonable to confirm that the subjects of your pictures were happy for them to go on the internet?
I hate to come across as a miserable old gimmer and I truly don't begrudge anyone the chance to enjoy their photography but there are occasions, surely, when you should think about appropriateness of the pictures you are taking?