Looking for family hobby. My husband and I are professional photographers and have a nine year old daughter…
Our daughter is very artistic and being raised in a photography studio already knows a lot but my husband and I decided that we need to create a family hobby involving photography for two reasons.
One: We want to spend time with our daughter having fun and developing deeper relationships. She is fun and loves to hang with us and at nine it is the perfect time to deepend that relationship before she hits the teens.
Two: we obviously love photography but tend to do it more for work than we used to when we photographed for the simple joy.
We decided that we should make a hobby of photographing ’something’ as a form of ‘collecting. We live in Texas and thought we would make weekend trips with our daughter to ‘discover and photograph’. BUT WHAT?
Any ideas what might be fun for two jaded pros and a little girls just learning the wonders of her camera? We don’t want to do barns. Overdone. Texas wildflowers are only in the spring. We considered town squares in small towns.
For fairly creative people we seem stumped. Any ideas. Places? Objects in towns? Cars?.Really, we would love any creative ideas. Maybe we have been paid for our work too long. We really want to rediscover the joy along with teaching our daughter the joy.
Thanks!
I love the suggestions so far. In the Texas Hill Country the big ranches decorate their gates very elaborately at Christmas. We talked about doing that as a book project a couple of years ago but haven’t yet. And of course that is only at Christmas.
Keep ‘em coming. I can’t wait to show Kiley Rea (that would be the little daughter… she is at her first away camp this week and will be excited to see all the things to choose from)
Antoni… when you are a little girl…? You are too silly! We actaully did think about horses and she already does want a pony. We live in small town Texas. Tons of horse ranches. On across the street from my mother. My husband just took her out horsebackriding a couple of weeks ago. She knows no pony where we live but is begging for riding lessons. I’ve told her that will only happen when we decied to give up the luxury of buying groceries! 
…hum… 6 months of riding lessons or a new camera….hum…think we’ll stick with ballet…
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Maybe you should photograph mailboxes. Many people have strange or antique looking mailboxes. It would be very interesting and creative. It might require some driving around though in residential areas.
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