Santa napping…

I crept on my knees to get as close as possible without waking him. They kicked me out of the mall right after I took this shot.

Fotografo:
vici
Caricato:
2012-12-15
Tags:
asleep christmas holiday mall nap napping nutcracker santa xmas
Fotocamera:
Nikon FE
Pellicola:
Superia X-tra 800
Cittá:
Reno, NV
Paese:
United States
Anno:
2012
Album:
Santa & stuff

27 Commenti

  1. trw
    trw ·

    I love it! Even Santa needs a little nap now and then! ;-)

  2. why-yu
    why-yu ·

    little bit looks like 'bad santa' movie hehee nice ;)

  3. kibs
    kibs ·

    kicked you out? Too bad you didn't get their picture! :)

  4. alexes
    alexes ·

    haha ;)

  5. alburnkat
    alburnkat ·

    Fantastic!!! Talk about sleeping babes. Sorry to hear they kicked you.

  6. clickiemcpete
    clickiemcpete ·

    Are you kidding me, they kicked you out? Thanks for taking one for the team Vici! :D

  7. vici
    vici ·

    @kibs, @alburnkat, @clickiemcpete - here's how it went down: I was on my knees when I took this shot. In the same instant, one of Santa's helpers was standing next to me. She looked down and said, "You can't really take a picture like that." I looked up and smiled at her. I understood, and was trying to keep it polite so they would not confiscate my camera. To quickly change the subject, I asked if it would be alright if I photographed just the surrounding decorations and xmas trees (seriously, who would it harm?). She said, "Sure, that would be fine." A few minutes into this, another one of Santa's helpers came up to me and said very loudly - "You're not allowed to take ANY photos in the mall without written permission from the blah, blah, blah…" I thought about getting permission and shoving it under her nose - but then I just felt angry, and my work was done. And I just hoped for this pic to turn out…

  8. clickiemcpete
    clickiemcpete ·

    This is such a great image Vici, it needs to be on a Christmas card along with a funny greeting like "Santa was sleeping off those 10 martinis on Christmas Eve so he didn't make it to your house but here's a little something anyhow." :)

  9. vici
    vici ·

    dammit @clickiemcpete - I should have consulted you BEFORE I ordered my Christmas cards; your caption would have been perfect!

  10. vici
    vici ·

    @kibs, @alburnkat, @clickiemcpete - oh yeah, and Santa slept thru all of this…

  11. alburnkat
    alburnkat ·

    Yeah, they get kinda tetchy about not getting their money for pix of Santa, which I can understand because it's a business, if only the their pix where worth paying for. We took the greyhounds in one year for their picture and the helper cut them off. We had a picture of our dogs heads, Santa and a whole lot of their decorations. Go Figure?

  12. kibs
    kibs ·

    @vici you got the best of them with this picture. I agree with @clickiemcpete gotta be a christmas card for next year.

  13. traaaart
    traaaart ·

    you win.

  14. vici
    vici ·

    :-) @traaaart

  15. grazie
    grazie ·

    love this :)

  16. grazie
    grazie ·

    classic

  17. nia_ffm
    nia_ffm ·

    love the pic and the story!

  18. vici
    vici ·

    @nia_ffm - thank you.

  19. superlighter
    superlighter ·

    Marvelous capture! Big Art needs prohibitions and lies ;-)

  20. wuxiong
    wuxiong ·

    Great pic of Santa, He looks tired after sending gifts...^..^ and cool story too...^..^

  21. jean_louis_pujol
    jean_louis_pujol ·

    for me the things are quite simple. Any people in a public place could be photographed. I feel no restriction and as long as persons are at their best apparence, I never had any bad comment. I never paid anybody for having took a pic... but in turn nobody proposed me any honorarium! sniff

  22. noe_arteaga
    noe_arteaga ·

    You are amazing!!

  23. vici
    vici ·

    aw shucks @noe_arteaga - I just got really lucky.

  24. lilithmoon
    lilithmoon ·

    OMG! xD

  25. adash
    adash ·

    Amazing photo!

  26. evi_g
    evi_g ·

    love it! hahaha :-D

  27. badjuju
    badjuju ·

    HAHA, Great pic and story!

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