Giving, but No Taking.

So... two new, and yet totally unrelated bits of news.

The bad news first.  I managed to take an amazing picture of the reflection of a clock tower off of a downtown building that was almost entirely glass.  However, just as I was wrapping it up, a security guard came out and asked me what I was doing.  I explained, and although he agreed that it was a cool picture, I could not keep them.  Apparently, the building was a federal building, and a bunch of people were freaked out about somebody taking a picture of it.  Never mind that I was standing out in the middle of the plaza, and not sneaking around.  Never mind that if I really wanted to take pictures of the building, I would have just thrown on a telephoto lens and taken the picture from far away.  So, they ended up deleted.  

On the plus side, I recently donated 5 prints of my shots (True Puppy Love, Witches Hat, Shadow Tennis, Lord of its Domain, and Staring Water Eyes to an AIDS fundraiser/auction.  There wasn't very many people there, but as a group, they raised $40.  So... woo!  The power of photography at work.