Mobius
I'm sorry to hear that this happen to you. It's a shame people can't be more respectful of someone's interests.
I tend to ignore comments from people about my Joe hobby. My boss thought she was be cute by cracking jokes about my Joe collection when she saw that I wasn't feeding into her remarks it stopped. I know it's hard to do sometimes, but it does work. It seems like everyone here gave you go tips on where to go to do photos. I myself have taken pictures at night and very early in the morning I also look for places where no one would really ever want to go. Good luck