to ME, it is obvious that it all has to do with the creative gene ... so many people in fine arts - music, painting, sculpting, photography, creative writing, theater, etc. - excel in more than one discipline ...
My wife - who is also talented in music - and I have many of our paintings hanging on the walls of our home and people are most often surprised to hear that we did them ...
Many years ago I was also far more involved in photography than I am today ... my favorite camera at the time was a totally manual Minolta SRT 201 ... then it was a Nikon FE2 35mm which has not seen the light of day in YEARS, a Sony digital ( I love the Carl Zeiss lenses ), and now it's a Nikon D3300 ...
The photos linked to in the above posts are beautiful ...
Maybe this thread will get be to shoot some more this year ...
thank you for posting