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...on the way home from work last night.

Firstly, if this isn't considered street please let me know and consider me suitably chastised. I figured I can see my TA parked, so..

I wasn't planning on submitting this but there's a bit of a yarn to go with it.

Me and the young bloke dropped into the local-ish shopping centre to pick up a few necessities like Wild Turkey, beer, film and a few luxuries like food. You know the type of place I'm talking about. Full of big multi-national companies that have forced the local businesses out of the market making you drive twice as far to not find a park only to realise a man can no longer buy more than one type of black and white fucking film!

So I see this vision of their stairless way to oblivion and, ooh it made me wonder, and I grabbed the wide angle, 'cause the stores were all closed and I didn't get what I came for.

I started rattling off a few shots digitally with a view to maybe bringing the tripod the next time I need to buy some shit I don't want and, at the very least, getting a clean shot or two. Me and my little clone were having a great time doing moving stairless way stunts and clowning around until...

Out the corner of my eye I spotted a rent-a-cop swiftly descending from oblivion while another was smartly covering the second exit. The third musta been having a doughnut break 'cause instinctively checking the reflection over my shoulder there was no-one to be seen. That's the last time I park the getaway mobile in the wrong disabled spot!

I pleaded ignorance and claimed that shooting in a public place was not against the law. Private Constable One, who had obviously read more than his Maglite manual, correctly informed me private property was otherwise. He even asked me twice if he could ask me what I was photographing. "Arty farty shit, mate." Private Probationary Constable Two smiled.

Anyway, all ended well after a discussion about privacy laws and me pointing out all their surveillance cameras, two of which had been stolen (obviously unmonitored), and we unanimously agreed the world was fucked and if I wanna do more shoots use a camera phone or just ask first if using a big arsed SLR. Apparently the management implemented a camera ban after a media crew ran amok. Fuckin' Mike Moore wannabes!

Moral of the story?

Drop a print off, buy a Leica and go back at Christmas time!

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Description
...on the way home from work last night.

Firstly, if this isn't considered street please let me know and consider me suitably chastised. I figured I can see my TA parked, so..

I wasn't planning on submitting this but there's a bit of a yarn to go with it.

Me and the young bloke dropped into the local-ish shopping centre to pick up a few necessities like Wild Turkey, beer, film and a few luxuries like food. You know the type of place I'm talking about. Full of big multi-national companies that have forced the local businesses out of the market making you drive twice as far to not find a park only to realise a man can no longer buy more than one type of black and white fucking film!

So I see this vision of their stairless way to oblivion and, ooh it made me wonder, and I grabbed the wide angle, 'cause the stores were all closed and I didn't get what I came for.

I started rattling off a few shots digitally with a view to maybe bringing the tripod the next time I need to buy some shit I don't want and, at the very least, getting a clean shot or two. Me and my little clone were having a great time doing moving stairless way stunts and clowning around until...

Out the corner of my eye I spotted a rent-a-cop swiftly descending from oblivion while another was smartly covering the second exit. The third musta been having a doughnut break 'cause instinctively checking the reflection over my shoulder there was no-one to be seen. That's the last time I park the getaway mobile in the wrong disabled spot!

I pleaded ignorance and claimed that shooting in a public place was not against the law. Private Constable One, who had obviously read more than his Maglite manual, correctly informed me private property was otherwise. He even asked me twice if he could ask me what I was photographing. "Arty farty shit, mate." Private Probationary Constable Two smiled.

Anyway, all ended well after a discussion about privacy laws and me pointing out all their surveillance cameras, two of which had been stolen (obviously unmonitored), and we unanimously agreed the world was fucked and if I wanna do more shoots use a camera phone or just ask first if using a big arsed SLR. Apparently the management implemented a camera ban after a media crew ran amok. Fuckin' Mike Moore wannabes!

Moral of the story?

Drop a print off, buy a Leica and go back at Christmas time!

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auto levels
custom Channel Mix to monochrome
border added and image scaled in The Gimp
no other adjustments