Mallflower

I'm off work today, after about 4 weeks straight of days worked in our store. What I really wanted was to get away from it all, take some pictures, and spend a day to myself.

I intended to go to the woods, with my new tripod, and get some wicked depth-of-field. It was either that, or go to the mall, and play around with some long exposure shots. Boogieman talked me into going to the mall, since he does not really love when I wander the woods alone.

Little did he know that I would have been safer in the woods.

Turns out, you are not supposed to take pictures at the mall. After I had wandered around for about thirty minutes, shooting, here and there, I was approached by mall security.

"You cannot take pictures in the mall."

"Why not?"

"It's mall policy."

"Well, that's an assanine policy."

(Yeah, that part probably did not need to be said.)

The security guy walked away and I thought it would be funny to capture the moment. I'm not sure whether he heard the camera, or if big brother was watching, but he turned around and came back toward me.

"You'll have to give me your camera."

"Umm...no."

"You have to delete the pictures."

"No, I'm not deleting the pictures, but I will leave the mall immediately."

As I walked away, he said into his walkie-talkie, "She's leaving the mall."

Although I was there to practice getting long exposure shots of people movement, you know how I can't resist flower shots, so here's the photographic evidence of my offense.



And here's what I was shooting when I got nabbed.



I deleted the evidence, of the shot of the security guard, in case they come to make a house arrest. It was a good shot though!

Just so you know, I can get why the mall would have this policy. It just annoys me that there are so many places that one can't take pictures these days without it being a security risk. It also annoys me when someone tries to tell me what to do.

I should have gone to the woods...

Cross-posted on Ampersand's Space.