The fellow on the right was objecting to me taking photos of his vehicle. I have not understood where people seem to think that what is theirs is private no matter where they are. In this case it was a public parking lot in Laguna Beach.
The reason for the photo was the fact that he backed into the parking space. That is a no-no in Laguna and can result in a parking ticket. Also the lanes in the lot are one-way and if he drove straight out he would be going in the wrong direction and really mess things up.
Anyway he was getting angry at me for taking a photo and wasn’t interested in why I was. When he asked me why I wanted to take a photo of his car he didn’t wait for a response but continued to argue that I had no right to photograph his car.
My response was to tell him to park legal and I wouldn’t have a reason to take the photo.
So why did I want a photo of his vehicle? I like the combination of the ‘Do Not Enter / Wrong Way‘ sign and the big black Range Rover incorrectly parked. It usually would be a ‘You Suck At Parking‘ post at my LagunBeat.com blog. Instead it ended up here though it may still get posted at LagunaBeat.com.
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I recently had one of my photos show up on another blog without my knowledge. I wasn’t informed by the web site owner that he was going to use the photo. Not nice. I would have told him that yes he could use the photo but only after reducing the size and linking directly, via the photo, to the post where he saw the photo.
After complaining, via a comment, that it would have been nice if he had told me about his posting of my photo he has now removed the photo. That’s dumb too. I didn’t tell him to remove it but he did anyway. I guess that makes me the bad guy. Nothing new for me.
Here’s his comment on removing the photo:
Carlos Miller – Photography is Not a Crime just posted a new comment on Security Guard Forbids Photography in Front of Apple Store:
I removed the photo, no problem.
The reason I didn’t contact you was because I wanted to get the story up before going to bed that night.
Most photographers who get harassed are happy to let me use their photo as I tell their story.
But it’s not a big deal. Photo has been removed. Problem solved.
Read the thread: http://www.pixiq.com/article/security-guards-forbid-photography-in-front-of-apple-store#comment-43778
Me thinks his comment is very funny. He got the story posted before bed time but just didn’t have any more time that evening to send a quick e-mail to me. In fact he NEVER sent me anything that evening or any other evening.
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Here they go again. Last month it was at the Palm Springs Museum of Art. This time it was the Apple store on El Pesao in Palm Desert, California. The event was the first day sales of the new iPad 2. The store wouldn’t be selling them until 5 PM.
When I showed up there was a line of several hundred. Good photo material. I started taking photos when a private security person came up to me and stated I couldn’t take photos. I was on the SIDEWALK and the gusrd claimed that the sidewalk was private properrty. I ignored him and the avove photo was the reselt. I changed positions but still took photos but now I was in the street.
Later I saw the same guard standing at the street corner. I took his photo. He now claimed I couldn’t take his photo without his permission. I told him he was wrong. Very, very wrong. Then another private citizen also told the guard that he was wrong and I was right. Then for some strange reason, that I cannot explain, the security guard follow the other fellow down the street.
I have the feeling that the guards I encountered at the Apple store today were the some ones I had the confrontation with at the Palm Springs Museum of Art. At both places they gave the same BS about the sidewalk being private property.
Also there were Apple personal present and they made no effort to correct the guards. Earlier in the day I stood in front of the Apple store and took a photo. There were no guards so there wasn’t any problems.
The above photo was taken at 1PM and there were no private guards. No one at Apple protested.
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