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03/02/2007 09:59:22 AM · #1 |
Thought this would be an interesting list to make up, post-up yours. You've probably seen mine already (sorry) but I'd be entertained to see yours. No doubt there are much better experiences than mine! :-)
1. June 2005. Toronto subway station. Told to stop taking pictures by a maintenance guy, who said security would probably be there soon. I escaped unscathed.
2. May 2006. Toronto, Guildwood Park. During a DPC GTG several of us were told we needed permits to take photos in the park. We promptly ignored him.
3. Nov 2006. New Orleans. In a public park, during a concert, after taking this shot I was told by the Sheriff, no pictures of the inmates. He scared me so badly I had to leave the park immediately to change my underwear.
4. Mar 2007. Toronto. I sat in the the large space between these buildings, shot a couple of photos looking at angles up (I'll add the photos later, but they're similar to the one below for now). A security guard came over and politely told me no photos, but if I did want to, I could go and get permission, then I could. I wasn't interested, so I pretty much said no thanks and left, as it is private property, though in a very public way, so no problemo.
Message edited by author 2007-03-02 10:00:09.
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03/02/2007 10:13:49 AM · #2 |
For a psychology experiment (and practice I guess), I walked around our local mall with a camera and asked random people if I could take a photo of them making a funny face. The plan was to do this twice, once with a small unassuming consumer digicam, and then again with a SLR and see if the results/reactions were different. I also tried to see if there were more subtle factors that would make people less inclined to oblige. After about an hour of shooting, I was approached by a security guard (I asked him if he would mind having his photo taken as he approached) But he told me that I needed permission to take photos of the mall, and as it is private property, and my card was almost full, I didn't object.
I have the photos on a different machine. I might try to dig them up if people are interested.
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03/02/2007 10:15:47 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Mark:
I have the photos on a different machine. I might try to dig them up if people are interested. |
Of course!
Message edited by author 2007-03-02 10:15:54. |
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03/02/2007 10:19:43 AM · #4 |
Mine is boring. Went for a drive a few years ago, drove around the federal fisheries building parking lot. Saw a fox, started taking pics of it from the window of the vehicle, all the while driving really slow, following the fox. The fox was on the grass in front of the building. A security guard drove up in a vehicle and asked what I was doing, I told her I was taking pics of the fox, she said ok and drove off. I don't guess there was much she could do, after all federal buildings and offices are public property, aren't they?
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03/02/2007 10:33:10 AM · #5 |
Thanksgiving night, 2006. In Minneapolis to visit the relatives for Turkey. 8:00 pm, bored at the hotel, nice moderate temps and relatively clear skies, I set off to explore downtown at night on what promised to be a quite evening because most folks were watching football (no NFL network at the hotel) or spending time with family. Among many other places, I went to the Guthrie Art Museum, parked in the loading dock area. I knew I shouldn't park there, but I just wanted to go to the top of their parking complex and shoot the city skyline. Afterall, it's thanksgiving and I'm pretty sure their parking lot is not going to see a lot of activity.
I parked, and went up to do my shooting, came back and as I was approaching my car, was approached by a Guthrie security guard, letting me know that I had been observed on security cameras, and that I could have been cited and towed. I explained to him what I was doing, and that I was now leaving. He was very nice and even discussed with me some places I could go to get some nice shots along the Mississippi River.
Sometimes security guards can be cool. |
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03/02/2007 10:38:08 AM · #6 |
| While shooting the sunrise at a sports ground close to my house, I was told to stop taking photos by a security guard because "the Americans don't allow it". Their was some building on US property next to the parking lot, don't know what the building was and don't care. I was on public property. I was done taking photos, otherwise I would have given the guard piece of my mind. Never had any other problems taking photos down here in South Africa, must be a US thing. If I was taking spy photos I would have been on the hill across the road with a telephoto, not in the parking lot with a tripod. |
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03/02/2007 10:38:34 AM · #7 |
A couple of years ago we had just arrived in Las Vegas and checked into our hotel. It was 1am and I wasn't tired (remember, I'm from Utah, I'm not normally up at 1am!). So my friend and I decide to go take pictures of the night scene. We want to take long exposures so that the people just sort of "disappear" from the scene (or turn into ghostly streaks). So we set up our tripods and point the cameras an an escalator for one of the hotels.
Along comes Miss Security Guard and asks us who we are working for?
Ummm... ourselves? We're just tourists taking pictures.
She tells us, we can't take pictures.
Huh? We ask? (looking all around and seeing other people pointing their cameras at other things and taking pictures) Why not?
Something about the location being copyrighted or some other mumbo jumbo. They don't want pictures of their hotel being used without permission.
I guess it's one thing to be a tourist with a snappy P&S camera, and another to have a big camera on a big tripod. She told us we had to leave.
So we left and started over to another hotel and set up to take pictures. Five security guards came out of this hotel. One approached us and asked who we represented. Luckily, when we told him we were just shooting pictures for ourselves, he said okay and went on his merry way.
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03/02/2007 10:39:11 AM · #8 |
Me, staring in awe at the seaport where Mercedes are delivered into the US and the lots with thousands of them all layed out waiting to be picked up by car carrier trucks - but stopping first at the security booth between me & the cars.
Me: I'm a photography student and I would like to shoot some pics in that lot
Guard: No, you can't, not allowed
Me: (Looking disappointed) Oh, that's okay, I just thought they looked so cool......
Guard: Well you can drive across the bridge over there, there is a public park and you really get a better view with the river in front of the cars...
Me: Grinning!!
I always ask first if I can find someone to ask before I shoot somewhere I KNOW is going to get me yelled at. Luckily I haven't been thrown out of any place... yet! ;) |
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03/02/2007 10:40:04 AM · #9 |
1. While attempting to take this photo (my 4th challenge entry) I was stopped by a security guard. Apparently employees in the building saw me taking pictures and were all scared. I was aiming at empty benches and was standing on the sidewalk. He allowed me to continue but had to stand there the entire time. I felt I had to rush. As I was shooting, he was talking about terrorism. I showed him the pictures on my card afterwards because he was interested in seeing them. There were really some scary pictures of my dogs and kids.
2. Unexpectedly my wife wanted to stop at a mall. I didn't like the looks of the parking lot, so I took my camera with me (i normally do). I left my bag in the car hidden and thought while she was shopping (3 or 4 hours average) I would walk outside the mall to the train station next to it. It was dark and boring there, so I walked back in the mall with the camera around my neck. My wife ond daughter were in a store that I can't stand walking into so I was waiting by a bench. I saw them waling in the store and raised my camera to my eye and snapped 1 picture. The second I did a security guard came up to me and yelled "You can't take pictures in here!" I knew I wasn't allowed (private property), but I asked him why anyway, just to see what his response was. He said becasue it messes up the cameras that the mall has installed there. Wow. I turned my camera off and waited until my wife was done shopping.
My advice would be to be careful because 'security guard' don't always know the rules.
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03/02/2007 11:48:49 AM · #10 |
Interesting read, good idea to collect these here in one place. I've posted the first two of these before, but for the record:
1. From this thread: We were on a 3 hour drive to Newark airport picking up our daughter. On the way back, we stopped at a rest stop and my wife and daughter decided to look in the shops. I preferred to get some fresh air so I decided to stand outside and see if there were any interesting pics I could get of the trees and hills (Catskills) and clouds nearby.
So I was walking around the top floor (outdoor floor) of the parking garage, when a state trooper pulled up, asked me to come to the car, and tell him what I was doing. I made the comment that the world is a very different place now that you can't even stand and kill some time taking pictures. He was very nice, didn't ask to see what I was taking but he asked me for my ID (license) and wrote something down from my license (I presume the license number and/or my name.)
He told me people reported me as suspicious. He asked for ID, and took my name. Other than wasting my time, he was nice, but my real objection is why does my name need to go in a report for doing something perfectly legal?
2. From this thread:
We went to JFK pick up my daughter who was returning from a youth trip to Israel. This was a long drive for us, and we were going to have to wait to miss the rush hour(s) traffic around NYC on the way home, so of course I brought my camera.
I didn't take any pictures in the airport. I was outside Terminal 4, on the island between the bus and car traffic lane, and my daughter and wife went back to the car to put her backpack in there before we went back in the airport for a delicious dinner.
I noted the terminal building was kind of interesting in that it has a curved architecture, so I let them go ahead and I proceed to take a few pictures of the outside of Terminal 4.
After about 5 minutes, I heard several people yelling behind me, Sir... Sir... (or something like that.) There was a traffic control officer who was yelling at me, and I think a passer-by was helping him yell at me as well. I finally looked around to see who they were talking to me and the security guard was approaching. He was not very happy. "You are not allowed to take pictures of the building". I said, "it's not illegal", and then he looked as if he was trying to decide whether to haul me in or just punch me in the face. He had a bit of a jamaican accent, and he told me that when he "tells me I have to stop taking pictures, I have to stop, and I shouldn't be telling him it's not illegal." Anyway, I decided to diffuse the situation rather than insisting on seeing his superior, and I just said, well, I won't take any more. He still looked like he wanted to haul me in, so I just said, I am waiting for my wife and daughter.
3. I was shooting in a hotel lobby which had some beautiful chandeliers, I just had my G2 at the time (this was before 9/11). I was staying at the hotel, it was late at night, the lobby was pretty empty. After I took a few shots a security guard told me I couldn't shoot. I asked for more details, he told me I could shoot pics of people/friends in the lobby, but not the lobby itself. I was done for the most part anyway, so I stopped and went up to my room.
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03/02/2007 12:09:17 PM · #11 |
| I spent the weekend with my husband around Lancaster, PA, and while driving we saw this wonderful sunset. I really wanted a picture, so we drove around trying to find a cool spot to get that. We finally found the Sight&Sound Theatre, which besides being a beautiful building, also had this really nice view. Well, the entrance was empty, there was a ticket booth, but no one there, and it said "do not enter", so I am guessing we shouldn't have entered :) We did, started driving around, looking for the best spot for the shot, and then the security guy in the car caught us, told us it was a private property and threatened to arrest us... we just left, laughing at the situation, but a little scared of going to jail :) |
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03/02/2007 12:10:10 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
...so I stopped and went up to my room. |
You can come out now, Neil. |
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