There was a crooked church ...

... and it had a crooked clock ...

In fact, the most interesting thing about this picture is that you're actually seeing it!

A security guard came up to me as I was taking the shot in the pedestrian area on top of the St Nicholas Centre and asked me what I was doing. I explained, as one does, that I was trying to capture the reflection of the church spire in the large windows above the shopping centre. He then asked to see evidence of my 'blips', explaining that the area was private property and I needed permission to take photographs there. I duly ran him through the 'Reflections in Windows' sequence before going on to the graveyard shots and the macro images of tree bark. He liked the odd one and deemed them safe enough, releasing me to go about my business after providing details of the Security Department to which I must apply should I ever wish to take photographs in that area again.

I did think about being outraged but then I thought that if honest-faced Hopps1 can be challenged for walking along a harbour wall, it's inevitable that I am going to receive some opposition as well!

And, after all, the story has the happy ending that my camera wasn't confiscated and the security guard gave me carte blanche to publish, having passed my pictures safe for public consumption!