Called out for Photo Taking - Story for Why?
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I take photos of advertising in stores to send my daughter. I have offered to show my phone to anyone who is concerned about what I captured. I also take photos of food I order because my daughter & I are on a dare this week about what we are each eating.
My son is a Google local guide. He takes pictures everywhere he goes and posts them on google. It gives the businesses good advertising. And it gives him an excuse to take pictures when he's supposed to be covert.
And when I'm doing gas audits if they make a fuss, I tell them, I gave you a chance to get out of the picture, but you chose to step in front of the camera anyway. I am standing here in a traffic safety vest and obviously taking pictures. If you don't want your picture taken, maybe you should have some kind of spacial awareness or pay attention to your surroundings.
I avoid taking pictures of people, and especially their faces as often as I can, but I can't be responsible for folks from the planet oblivion.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/09/2026 02:43AM by Morledzep.
And when I'm doing gas audits if they make a fuss, I tell them, I gave you a chance to get out of the picture, but you chose to step in front of the camera anyway. I am standing here in a traffic safety vest and obviously taking pictures. If you don't want your picture taken, maybe you should have some kind of spacial awareness or pay attention to your surroundings.
I avoid taking pictures of people, and especially their faces as often as I can, but I can't be responsible for folks from the planet oblivion.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/09/2026 02:43AM by Morledzep.
I've had people jump in front of me while taking pictures, wanting their picture taken and smiling big. I've even had people strike a pose and tell me to take their picture. But I've never had pushback.
Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.
If you turn an iPhone ringer off, it won’t make the shutter sound when you take a pic. I don’t use a flash. I pretend I’m texting and just hit the button. Sometimes you can see the screen light up so I just make a joke about friendship keeps texting even when I’m out. Taking pics of food has become normal.
I forgot my glasses and I am using the pics to make the lettering larger.
That's a good one
I often take photos of the prices on the bottom grocery shelf. I can't bend down far enough to see them
I often take photos of the prices on the bottom grocery shelf. I can't bend down far enough to see them
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
Alexander Den Heijer
Playing old & tech-ignorant, sometimes it's, "I just got this phone and it keeps telling me to take pictures of everything! Doesn't yours do that?"
I have my shutter sound off and I am constantly texting someone. If it's obvious that I took a photo, I was admiring someone's (purse/shoes/outfit...) and wanted to do an image search for it. "Have you tried "circle to search yet?! It's SO COOL!!! I really like their shoes and I need to find something similar (for yourself or that imaginary person you are texting).
@ArkLaMissshopping wrote:
I've had people jump in front of me while taking pictures, wanting their picture taken and smiling big. I've even had people strike a pose and tell me to take their picture. But I've never had pushback.
I had to take a photo of the interior dining room of a pizza place (in addition to the menu board and bathroom, and of my food when I was eating it before I left). A table of 3 was the only table occupied. Of course, one of them must have seen me snap the dining room photo. I go directly out to the car, and start it up. Next thing I know, an irate older guy wearing overalls is standing next to my driver's side door with his hand inside my window preventing me from backing up without hitting him. He was adamant about me deleting his picture (even though his back was turned to me in the photo). I am aware of the laws of my state that do not prohibit someone from taking a photo in a public space that you do not have an expectation of privacy...but this guy was not going to take "no" for an answer, and I didn't want to end up calling the police (talk about blowing your cover as a mystery shopper by not being discreet!). So I humored him by showing him my camera photo album with his photo deleted. LOL..of course, he wasn't watching me the whole time I was sitting in my car with my phone, and he wasn't tech savvy enough to know that I had not only texted the photo to myself before deleting it, but also after he finally walked away, I simply went to the trash folder and undeleted the photo.
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