I never snap photos of them myself. I know that in many places, they wouldn’t like it. I know at my mall, it says as one of their rules, that no photographs of the interior or exterior of the building are to be taken without permission.
I will, on occasion. Here are pictures of alarm systems in buildings that I have taken: http://jjinc24.info/gallery/fire_alarms_in_buildings/
Yes I usually do if the alarm is not that common.
I have tried to get into it, but I just can’t get past the nervousness of doing it so.
Me too! 
I sometimes want to, but I don’t want to get “caught” doing it. Some people are really judgmental up here in the Northeast!
I still can’t get into the groove of it now, even though now I’m in Ohio visiting relatives.
And if you ever wanna go to Ohio, DON’T DRIVE. 14 hours of hell.
I used to take quite a few pictures of alarms but now only do so occasionally, usually when I see an interesting or uncommon device. For instance, today I saw http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy322/Chupacabra_1/Fire%20Alarms/photo_zpsd676b134.jpg this Edwards annunciator at a building; since I don’t come across these very often (they are disappearing quickly with system retrofits/upgrades), I thought I’d get a photo.
You have a pretty good assortment of some pretty unique setups. Nice collection of photos.
I haven’t taken any photos, however there is a Cerberus annunciator I would like to identify the next time I am in that place.
Thanks! I’m always glad when I get to share photos of interesting setups and take pride in my collection of pictures, a few of these being, as you said, of rather unique equipment. Having photography as a major hobby definitely helps to continually improve this collection.
I’m not a huge fan of taking pictures in heavily occupied areas, such as malls and stores. So I really haven’t been able to take pictures of fire alarms. But, I usually do when I head out to hotels and other areas where people walking the corridors isn’t as likely at certain points of the day. When I go to the beach in a few weeks, hopefully I’ll be able to get a few pictures since they have a Gamewell/FCI system, and they aren’t all that common to me.
Same here, I never usually take pictures of alarms (or anything in general) in heavily occupied areas. Usually I will take a picture of one when nobody is around.
My mom doesn’t let me bring my iPad to school, so I don’t take pictures of fire alarms.
Same with me.
The camera predates the iPad by 184 years. You don’t have any other device that has some sort of camera?
Ha!
That’s mean jake!
I know that at my local mall it specifically says as one of the rules that photographs of the interior or exterior of the mall are not to be taken without permission. So no taking pictures there.
That rule never really bothered me. It doesn’t really stop people unless they get caught and are asked to stop. Even then that’s probably not top priority for mall security.
It’s not top priority, but it is often enforced. You can be immediately kicked out of the mall. Sometimes you have the option to erase the recorded material.