Totally hacked off today.
I was asked by a local play group to take some shots of the kids.
All the parents had signed forms granting permission.

I turn up and started taking some shots when one on the kids fathers turns up to take his kid.
(It turns out that parents are divorced and he has the child some evenings)
He sees me taking pictures of his child, walks over snatches the camera from me and then swings the whole thing around and hits me with it....
Snapping off the flash as it caught me under the ribs, whilst hurling abusive language at me.

The organisers restrained him, and then suggested that he go away and calm down.
I asked for the police to be called, and was told by the play group that that would not be a good idea as they did not want to cause more trouble.

Well sod that I thought, I have been assaulted and have had equipment damaged so I called the police.
The police then told me as the farther was only protecting his child and I was not to badly hurt
it was a low priority, and I would do better taking a private persecution for the damaged equipment..

I am just dum struck. I have been assaulted had equipment broken, and the police don’t want to take it any further and the play group wont press charges either…

It would seem that photographers are becoming second class citizen…


One advantage of having a titanium camera is that it is quite robust (tell my ribs that)
This shot was taken a few mins ago and everything seems to be working OK.