Does Photography Run In Your Family?

[nicka912]

My family has always been one of those traditional families, who pass down a material posession or a nack of ability to one another. I was wondering, does anybody have photography running through their genes? Whether it be a son, daughter, mother, father, cousin, grandpa... Anything.

Me and my dad have always had a thing for photography, he owns a (Film) Canon Rebel. Being pretty young, I have just begun to pick up the trait as well, starting off on a Digital PowerShot A520, that he bought for me for my birthday. Me and my father have had many fun times photographing family parties with his rebel, and his camera has always been one of my favorite things, something that I'm just always careful with, and just enjoy shooting with.

Does anybody else have anyone in their family who enjoys photography?

[Steve Parr]

Kodak would've gone out of business in the 60's had it not been for my Mom buying film.

She was the typical "Oh, let me get a picture!" type of Mom; bless her heart.

My brother, though, is the true photographer in the family. He started with a Canon F-1 back in 1974 (he was 15 and borrowed money from my Grandfather) and has been going ever since. I definitely caught the bug from him.

Sadly, we lost my brother to the darkside (he shoots Nikon now), but he's still the finest photographer I know and, even at age 43, I find myself picking his brain every time we get together...

Steve

[MattyB]

My father is a photographer for the RAAF (royal aust air force), he was the top of his game, and now that he's aged and isn't upto itto hop in a jet fighter or russian roulettes anymore, he's the top dog in the CPE (central photographic establishment) -
my mother was in the raaf too, working with intelligence, analizing photos for such and such - it's been years and years but i'm still not aloud to talk about it..

my brother studied photography at school, and he was fairly good at it. he's got a great eye for composition.. he just doesn't know it

BUT - it all depends if you believe it's Nature over Nurture or the other way around.

i don't really know my dad, we've been more like interstate aquantinces, so i haven't learnt anything from him. my mother hasn't touched a camera properly in years.
and my brother was living with my father for the most part of his photography phase.

i'm new to it, but i'm addicted - and i've been told (as most people have *rolls eyes*) that i'm good at it and i've got 'the eye' for it.

so maybe it's a certain gene that's been passed down :lol: who knows.

also, my grandfather on my mothers side used to fix film cameras for a living, then he moved onto radios and those sorts.



so, being into photography, but not having it forced onto me, or taught to me in any way shape or form, just felt like taking photos all the time.. always looking at things and wondering how i could photograph it, or going cruising with a car club and thinking how great it would be to shoot it. - some could think that it's a traught/gene/habit/sense passed down from my father, and my mothers father. who knows

[Bob_A]

My dad taught me how to develop my own prints when I was 10 years old. I didn't even have a developing tank for my negatives back then and used trays in the dark ... he'd have one end, and I'd have the other and we'd try our best to make sure the negs were actually immersed in the solution.

[nicka912]

My father had a dark-room as young one, as I recently discovered. Looks as though he picked it up young, as well.

[theflyingkiwi]

I won't say that photography doesn't run in the family. However my father has always used a camera for his art work. So my father is an artist and auntie on my father’s side is also an artist. My older brother also wonts to get in to photography.

So I guess you could say that creative side runs in my family.

[Nidz]

My father was into photography as a hobby. He used to be a Divemaster and had underwater photography equpment and also a film SLR which I now have. I love taking photos. It's become a lot cheaper since I got a digital camera with my first point and shoot.. Upgrading to DSLR has just upped my want to get out and take better photos.

[Maureen Souza]

I am the picture-aholic in my family. Most of my family doesn't think alot about more than a snapshot. I have a sister with a Nikon 5700 and she still doesn't know how to fill the frame....sigh. I guess I didn't teach her very well.

[saravrose]

yes, yes and yes. although we are all different photographers who have different tastes and like to shoot different things. My uncle picked up his first camera in the phillipines when he was in the navy forty years ago. he's largely a film guy.he has an incredible collection of cameras that he has promised to give me someday. I've been wanting to try photographing the collection just for kicks, only he doesn't let anybody touch... I'll get a chance eventually. My cousin became a shutterbug with the birth of her daughter, she's a Point and shoot girl, with a little kodak, not sure what it is. and then there's her fiance who has a couple minolta's. again, he shoots in film. and then there's me. I'm a digital girl. but were a kick at sunday dinners. the kids have learned to walk over and around the misc equipment we all constantly drag out. and when there's prints... My uncle will stand in the kitchen, saying "junk, junk, junk what were you thinking? jeez sari, like that one, where's that? junk, ohhhhh that's preetttyyy... here's a winner, junk, junk, gettin' better girl, why don't you go get a good film camera this crazy digital stuff." anyway, you get the idea. Sari.

[cruzyn56]

I remember my father having a rangefinder camera that he rarely used, eventually giving it to my brother who was a budding photographer at the time. We have discovered rolls of undeveloped film from that camera most likely from my Dad's tour of duty in Japan during the Korean War. It will be interesting when we get them developed. It is my Mom, though, that I always remember with a camera on vacation and at family get togethers. I ended up buying my brother's cast off SLRs as he upgraded through the years.

[O/confusion]

My mother's name was "Iris"---does that count?

regards,
Terry

[Curtis N]

Photography runs in my family. When I show up with a camera, everybody runs!

[Jesper]

One of my dad's brothers (my uncle) was really into it in the sixties. My dad also started with it through him, and was the photographer until the mid-80's. Now my dad is more into using his video camera, and my brother, mother and myself are into photography.

Until last year my mother was still using a film camera, but it got stolen when my parents were on holiday in Italy, so now she's using a digital camera too (Nikon Coolpix 8800).

My brother has a 10D, I also have a 10D but just bought a 5D - I'm selling the 10D.

[Longwatcher]

In my case my dad was a professional photographer for about ten years until he realised it did not pay enough, he still shoots pictures these days alternating between a Hassleblad film camera and a 300D w/kit lens (he is thinking about the upgrade to 5D).

But I also recently found out that my grandmother (Dad's mother) used to take travel pictures and apparently some of them got published back in the 40's, 50's and 60's. So I definately know where I got my photography gene from.

[soupdragon]

Four generations so far.

[Tlee05]

No one does photography in my family, Just me im a lone ranger. My sister was nearly a graphic designer does that count. :D

[FlyingPete]

Yep, Like my father before me (although he switched occupation quickly to Accounting as it paid more :rolleyes: ), and now my children as well:
http://www.lowden.net.nz/Stuff/Liz1.jpg

[nicka912]

^Nice picture up there!!!!

[blinking8s]

my great grandfather (whom I've never met) was a photographer, in the Army he photographed a lot of WWII stuff, saw the photos when i was younger and there was some super awesome work, it all was destroyed/lost during a family dispute over my great grandmothers death and who got what ect...

[EoSD30fReAk]

no it doesn't run in my family!

my father and brother do have a digital compact but i was the first to buy a DSLR.
when they saw the fun i was having with photography they also bought digitals.