hmmm  just reading through the thread kept me thinking...nice one, Tunde...smile....

As to my family... a great variety in this, some of them are not interested at all, some of them like only special themes, like landscapes but dont like other themes, like my little still lives...lol... and my sister in law is a photography addict too but she mainly takes shots of her family for documentation and plants of all sorts and we had not much time until now to really talk about, what photography means to each of us. Writing this, I know this is something I will change soon.
My husband is supporting me in giving me as much time of the sparse time we two have for us as I need to go out and shoot or to be here in RR, even if its midnight...grin.. cause he knows, what it means to me. He sometimes has a totally diffrent taste concerning the photos I do, especially when they are more abstract or too close up for his liking... He really is supporting in other ways too, as he has bought new bigger discs for the server we have, so all my shots will be safe...grin.. and he honestly gives his opinion to my experiments with framing or what shot I should upload.
My father is very supporting too and loves to take shots too, he has taken shots for documentation since I was a little child and so all of his four children have a complete documentation from birth till 18th birthday completed by the stories my mother collected and I guess this is very rare to have...smile... For him photography is a medium to take shots of what he loves or finds fascinating to keep as a memory, including lots of shots of the mountain he sees from his working room in all possible weathers and moods or lots of shots of the special dinner dish decorations he has done for my mother, or even shots of a carpet, where he sees faces in, or the sky with special clouds which trigger his phantasy. The most important for him is to have a tiny cam easy to handle, so he can carry it with him all the time.
He likes to see my shots and gives his opinion on it and of course he likes most those shots, where his phantasy can roam freely... So I printed out some of my shots presented here to hang on the wall opposite to his bed, when he was in hospital and he was so glad he had something  he liked to look at and to let his phantasy play with in the long hours he had to stay there.  And he asked me to do a shot of him in his room, made a poem and asked me to combine photo and words and print them out for handing it with a little gift of money to the nurses in the hospital who cared for him.
Some of my shots are to "artistic" for him, meaning to abstract and he says so...lol...
Oki, thats my 5 pence to it...smile