Photographing children at the swimming pool?

[forbiddenfruit85]

Taking our dd for her first ever swim at the end of the week.

And it really saddens me that we aren't allowed to take photos to capture it.

But the swimming pool has a no photography rule (think the majority of them do now)

Would anyone else have a problem if they were in the swimming pool and someone was photographing their own children? Children wear swimsuits at the beach and you are allowed to photograph there.

I understand completely why the rule is there though.

However, aibu to feel sad and disappointed that I won't be able to capture this memory and to accept that this is the world we live in?

I think it's a real shame too! When we took our dd to a hotel once, we were the only ones in the pool, so I took the opportunity then to get a snap of her in her armbands! Enjoy swimming and Merry Christmas!

You will be able to capture the memory. In your head!

Just ask the pool person, they might be amenable,

It is a shame and no, I wouldn't mind

Take pictures of her in the changing room before and after her swim, then you still have some snaps of her in her swimming gear (if the changing room is private cubicles rather than one big room that is).

Have you thought about asking the lifeguard if they could take the photo for you. That is what they do at our local pool for babies first swim.

We can here if we speak to the receptionists first.

We were allowed - with dd1 we asked the lifeguard first and he just asked us to ensure no one else was in shot - we went to a corner of the baby pool. With dd2 we were in a hotel pool, no one else there so asked at reception and they didn't mind at all.

they have introduced that our local swimming pool too, strangely incongruous with the floor to ceiling windows looking out at the car park running the full length of the teaching pool!

It certainly is a shame...

once me and my charge were the ONLY people in the pool, then a mum, dad, and tiny baby came in, with a camera

even though WE were the only other people there (and the life guard) and i said that i honestly did not mind them taking a picture AND was more than happy to go to other area of the pool and not be in the photo, they were not allowed even to take 1 picture.....

a few weeks later me and my charge were at another pool... a "fun" pool which the council had planned to close, but the day we went they changed their mind and announced they would keep it open...... SO the BBC are there, and the local paper.... without any consent or anything me and my charge are filmed by the BBC, shown on the local news (in our swimuits, obviously), have photos taken, which are in the paper, and then the same photos are used to make the swimming pools new brochure

I guess the only good point is i can honestly say i have been on page 3 of the paper in my bikini (as is true, the feature was in page 3)

But to not be allowed to take 1 photo of a baby, is rediculouse when i had no choice but to be shown on the BBC news, appear in the paper AND in the pools brochure.
[and i feel i should have at least been given free entry or a voucher for a free swim or something as a thank you, even though i had no choice]