My inspiration - World Photography Day - Photo #11

The part that isn’t represented in the other photos is where my love of photography came from. That is from my mother. On that new table in my room, there is a photo of myself, my mother and brother, in a beach house when I was about 6-8 years old. She was and is my inspiration, both in photography and how to be in the world. She married a man with a great eye for art and architecture, and had her own upbringing around photography (her dad was one of the vice-presidents of Kodak back in the day) and her love of photography and her ease at allowing me to play around with her cameras and the darkroom in our house, and her love of me, sparked my love of photography. This photo also shows part of one of her watercolors (what she has turned to in recent years – at 97 it’s hard for her to hold a camera steady, but she can still paint!), and part of one of my photographs – what I would call a classic ‘raingirl’ photo.