Well policemen chat to eachother about their fascination with 'the job' and they all probably know about you now as 'Photoman' or 'nightpix', or 'The Nutter with The Camera'.......true acceptance will come when they pull over to ask you for some photo tips.....
Well, that's how it was when I started photographing this area at night back in 2009. (FYI, I've been photographing there during the day since 1997, when I was still using an 8x10 Toyo view camera.)
But sometime in late 2012 / early 2013, all that changed.
For reasons I was never able to learn or discern, it became difficult-to-impossible for me to photograph in this area without the police hassling me --
i.e., threatening me with tickets for jaywalking or obstructing traffic, et al -- and/or interfering with my photos, usually by following me around with their patrol car and shining the car's headlights and spotlights on every scene I attempted to photograph.
It got so bad that last year, I could pretty much count on a police car stopping to question me literally every single time I setup my camera to photograph a scene and as often as not, before I even managed to make my first exposure.
A month ago, my experience this morning would not have happened. Clearly, something has changed between then and now, but I'll be damned if I know what it is....
