So today there I was minding my own business shooting 45 Fremont in downtown San Francisco when all of a sudden a Shorenstein Company employee security guard decides to give me the finger in my photographs of the building. Next thing you know I get the typical hassle. Except normally when the guards come out all polite like and all this guy instead comes out middle finger a blazing and telling me that I'm not allowed to photograph the building from the public space.
He goes on to tell me how he doesn't like to have his photograph taken, etc. (hint, if you don't like your photograph taken, probably best not to come swaggering out of a public building middle finger a blazin', remember any old asshole can have a blog these days). And insists on telling me how if I want to photograph the building I'm going to need to get approval from building management. blah, blah, blah.
Well, this guy got off on the wrong foot with me in the first place so I politely inform him that despite his objections that I'm on public property and as such have every right to photograph whatever I want and if he'd like he can feel free to call the police and the three of us can have a conversation. Of course he asks me why I need to be such an asshole and I remind him that he was the one giving me the bird, etc. etc. All I am is a lowly photography hobbyist but that since he was being so nice and all that he could look forward to his photo being on the internet.
He asks me if I *really* want him to call the police. Again, I answer nicely, yes.
Click through for the rest of the story... thomashawk.com/2006/04/photographing-architecture-is-not....
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johnny onion [deleted] 49 months ago | reply
great story and link to your blog. i'm gonna go out today and shoot the big steel and glass downtown and see who emerges. doubt i'll get a finger 'cause everyone here is so mellow, but we'll see.
know your rights! -the clash.
the pic is nice, but the fade-to-white effect at top left is, for me, too seve. great perspective, though.
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liber 49 months ago | reply
Freedom for photographers!
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An Nguyen Photography 49 months ago | reply
what are the rights about photographic public spaces and landmarks? has anyone else had this problem? not me. i'll save this for the story despite the blown sky and top of building.
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samuel t ludwig 49 months ago | reply
Wish you could've framed the text better.
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Matthias Rhomberg 49 months ago | reply
blown a little too early
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Ivan Makarov 49 months ago | reply
exposure ..
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iam.cynical 49 months ago | reply
No boobs. No bird. Nice story.
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MeckiMac 49 months ago | reply
just great! How can someone delete this?
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Ѕhims 49 months ago | reply
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halfy666 49 months ago | reply
the frame ratio seems wired, like to see more beyond the bottom
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brodysattva 49 months ago | reply
shims - you like, yet delete?
Ѕhims 49 months ago | reply
read comment above me ...
travoll 49 months ago | reply
i would've thought this was a save but i'm to late.
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Nate Kay 48 months ago | reply
Great shot, featured in Window Pictures.
davidrombaut 41 months ago | reply
excellent !
[ via 'Architecture' group on flickriver --david_rombaut ]
Theflickrtower 38 months ago | reply
wow!
O4karitO 38 months ago | reply
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Freelance Advisor 25 months ago | reply
Great shot! We've used it in an article on Limited Companies vs Sole Trader.
Thanks for providing it!
Exploratorium Observatory 21 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called
San Francisco - a sense of time, a sense of place
, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Nicola Ferrara 3 months ago | reply
Absolutely Amazing!!!