Daddy-Daughter Photo Meetup
Nothing surprised me more than to hear one of my kids wanting to come with me on a photo walk. It was a great surprise, but a surprise nonetheless. I was meeting up with my photo group to shoot evening photos around the ByWard Market. We met at William and George streets, where you can look across to the Market Plaza and the main landmark building. As I was gathering my camera gear to head out, Kid 2, who was only 10 at the time, asked if she could come along? I caught me by surprise because she had never seemed to show an interest in photography. She loved to ham it up for a camera but never seemed keen on being on the other side of one. This was back in the day when the only D-SLR that we had was my Nikon D80. We had some Canon point-and-shoot cameras, so we settled on one of those for her to use. I had only one tripod but we would share it for the evening and that worked out well. The majority of photographers for this meetup were middle-aged to seniors, and they were all surprised ...

