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A typical German department store, 3 levels. First floor mostly stationery, books, and craft supplies, second floor mostly clothes, third floor dvd's and electronics. Ignore the girl in the reflection; she's just some crazy girl who kept going up and down the escalator all afternoon with her camera balanced on the handrail. :)

This is the view coming down the escalator from the second floor to the first floor. Although in German I would say it was coming down from the first floor to the ground floor, because they number floors differently from the way Americans do.

I always wanted to photograph this view because the mirrors made an interesting effect, so finally one day I got up the courage. I felt like a total moron going up and down, up and down the escalator as I experimented with different shutter speeds and camera angles. And it didn't help that some guy liked my "Supergirl" t-shirt and started shouting at me while I was on the escalator. But in spite of the embarrassment, I managed to get a few shots. This was my favorite because I like the diagonal lines.

"Kasse" is the cash register. The store had a Kasse on every floor. I noticed that if I did not pay for a dvd on third floor (wanted to buy it together with some stationery from first floor), it set off an alarm on every escalator all the way down. The first time it happened, I was a bit worried that the German police would come tackle me. I went over to a cashier, but she just told me not to worry about it, and everyone just ignored the alarm. Later I got smart and started holding the dvd's up in the air above the sensor so I wouldn't annoy everyone by setting off the alarm. Don't worry, I always paid before I left. :)