Shooting a story on the cherry blossoms in DC today…I was standing on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial getting shots of the Tidal Basin and the White House with the cherry trees.

Everything was going great, we had all the shots we needed for a little different story on how people abuse the trees, let kids climb all over them, break off branches, that kind of stuff. Then a security official walks over to me and says “Excuse me, do you have a permit?”

Now I assumed he wanted some kind of permit for shooting on the mall, or shooting at a monument. No no. He wanted to see my tripod permit. That’s right, another person wanting me to have a permit to use a tripod. What is this world coming to.