Yea, that happened to me when I was tyring to take pictures of Cece Winans and no one said anything about no pictures. No yelling needed or required.

Posted by erika @ 26 september 2003 09:01 PM AEST

yep, some security guards get a bit power hungry. Wish I had a $1 for everytime the same has happened to me, I would have enough money for a D-SLR by now :)

Last Sunday after I ran into you in the city I was hassled by security guards at 4 different locations in a 1 1/2 hour period.

Posted by james m @ 26 september 2003 09:18 PM AEST

james, really? what do you think we're doing? dear oh dearrr

Posted by tracey @ 26 september 2003 10:49 PM AEST

This is becoming a trend. Every little whiny f* thinks its trendy to assalt verbally/phisically photogs. Keeps happening to me all the time, when shooting on the street. I tried to be polite at first, explain that the street is as much mine as it is theirs and that I can photos of whatever I wish and that I don't own them diddly-squat until I sell a photo w/ a "recognizable" image of them etc etc. But that does not work well w/ a lot of people, so it best to tell them to get lost and/or call the cops.

Anyways, unless this was taking place inside HMV, itself, they had absolutely no right telling you to stop taking photos. And even if you were they can't take away your film/memory card.

Posted by Alex @ 26 september 2003 11:06 PM AEST

John Mayer and Kelly Clarkson all in a short time span? You lucky girl!
<3

Posted by krista @ 27 september 2003 11:39 AM AEST

LOL... thats too bad.

Posted by Brandi @ 27 september 2003 05:51 PM AEST

This is a GREAT thing to download.. http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
I don't know if laws in Austraila are different, but good to know sort of stuff

Posted by susan @ 28 september 2003 06:47 AM AEST

hey tracey? for some reason your website won't scroll down at all?

Posted by erin @ 28 september 2003 08:10 AM AEST

i was taking a photo last week of carol mosely braun's announcement speech (she wants to be nominated to run for president http://www.carolforpresident.com/ like that'll happen... ) on campus. i was standing outside the building and lining up to shoot everyone's applause through a wall composed entirely of glass (very fishbowl :)) when this large security guy started running towards me and yelling (YELLING) at me, getting right in my face, totally invading my personal space. he was so pissed! it was after dark, and i was talking on my cellphone the whole time, and i had abandoned my backpack several yards away, so i guess i looked extra suspicious, but still... i reacted the same way, pointing out that five major newscameras and numerous flashbulbs were going off inside the room, but that only started him yelling at me to leave the area immediately. bastard. if i hadn't been in the middle of a conversation on my cellphone at the time i might have made more of an issue. next time i think i'll be in insistent little photo geek just to make a point with these thugs that they can't push us around like this. damn 9/11 backlash. we must do our bit to restore common sense before the chest-thumping gets out of control. photologgers unite!

Posted by brian @ 29 september 2003 03:11 PM AEST