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Yesterday was one of those I have to call scary days. Taking pictures outside as usual. I spent a lot of time outside because it was slow in the store so I’ve got to really bang up some images doing the thing again with no flash with the sunlight in people’s faces so I can get up very close, maybe eight inches, maybe a foot.

Last night, the police pulled up. I knew exactly what they were there for even though there are a million police cars by this precinct I’m at. An officer got out of the car and he had this expression on his face like he was angry. “You were flagging me right there.” He said, “Listen, you’re the guy taking pictures. We know about you, we got you on video.”

I said, “Why, I’ve been doing this for 12 years all over the city, all the cops know me.” He goes, “Listen, if you do it one more time, we get one more complaint, we’re going to bring you downtown.” I said, “Why?” He goes, “Well, you do with the thing. You’re looking up at the building, pretending you’re looking at the building,” and he goes, “We know what you’re doing.” I said, “Yeah but if you look at the site, there’s no nudity, no breasts, no butts. I’m just doing real people, real fashion.” I showed them the card.

He kind of smirked but he said the same excuse as all the other police do, “Look, the captain’s on our ass,” which means if they get so many complaints and the captain doesn’t take care of it, it goes to a higher level and the captain gets in trouble. So the captain tells the regular police guys to do something with this guy.

I think I know who it is. There are a couple of women who live in the area who go to work every day so they pass me at 10:30 and maybe 7:30. But I can’t remember everyone. But if they do stop to complain, I explain who I am and I usually calm them down but there’s one – sorry to use the word – bitch that’s really pushing this.

Anyway, I’m going to focus on just taking pictures of men today. That [02:23 inaudible] for loop. Just good looking guys, crazy looking guys, gay looking guys – whatever type of guy goes by when I try to get a really good shot. There is 70% women on the site, 30% men so today’s going to be a man day. I’ll probably get my ass kicked.

But anyway, signing off.