A Surreptitious Supermarket Snap

One of our local supermarkets has huge floor to ceiling windows which are alternately clear glass, and transparent orange panels. Visually they make a fascinating expanse of glass, and as this wall faces the afternoon sun, when the sun shines those panels just light up in a remarkable way. I have featured them in  iPhone images on this blog – see below.

…….and to give you some indication of the size here’s an after-dark image that’s been sitting on my hard drive for a year and a bit.

This past week we were back there shopping, and the sun was intermittently shining. My G10 was in my pocket, as usual. My fingers were itching to try a shot, but dare I? Fellow photographers have been ‘spoken to’ by over-vigilant security staff in the main shopping arcades elsewhere in the town for taking images on ‘private’ property and no doubt this supermarket also counts as private property. Above me I could see the security camera housings watching my every move. But I thought: what’s the worst that can happen? I get told to delete the images from my hard drive and get ‘spoken to’. So I risked it, cradling the camera nonchalantly in the palm of my hand all set up and ready to fire, strolling up the aisles waiting for someone to complete the scene.

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Amazingly I got what I wanted and despite the camera nestling in the palm of my hand, the horizon was within half a degree of dead straight (I can’t manage that at eye level usually!). And I caught a bunch of people just about right. And this is the full frame image that I captured – how the heck did I get that right! Most importantly I never felt the tap on the shoulder from officialdom. I pocketed the camera and walked out. Job done.