VHD-Tex Loc: Mc Allen Tx.

Me too. Band and Orchestra director for 42 years, played in dance bands, towns bands, jam bands, local Symphony (bass trombone) and even a service band (748th Air Force band that is no longer in service.) Took up photography over seas in the 40's and have loved ever minute. Like the bunny and the battery---still going.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

I play piano at a restaurant 200 nights a year, my wife (singer) and I perform 35-45 dinner/dances a year, I have many private solo gigs and try to squeeze in my photography/drone business in between. I guess I qualify.

cosmo54 Loc: Easton, PA but will travel for photos

Me too. Acoustic stand up bass....bluegrass band.

Sherry1222 Loc: Palm Coast, Florida

Nope. Took piano and accordion as a child. My piano teacher told my mother she was wasting her money because once I learned the song I wouldn't read the sheet music. Played by ear. I do have a son who is a very talented touring musician. Tours all over the country and will be making a trip to Italy this summer. Look him up. Blaircrimminsandthehookers.com. Has new CD jus out "You Gotta Sell Something". Fun jazzy ragtime music. He writes his songs and scores for the rest of the band. Check them out. I feel I do have hidden talent somewhere deep down, just didn't have the opportunity to bring it out and nurture.

banjoboy Loc: Austin, TX

I've played guitar and banjo for years, and played in a bluegrass band for the last 10 years. But the big question remains, is bluegrass really music? Ha, ha! 😉

Wakko12 Loc: New Hampshire

I play a few instruments, but exactly as well as my photography - I don't do any of them enough to be really good. Maybe when I retire...

Robert Bailey Loc: Canada

I'm another one.
Oftentimes the creative types of people are horrible at "business".
They need to pair up with someone else who as that "skill set".

jbump Loc: Lubec Maine

I don't know what the connection really is, but all the comments above bear out what we all seem to suspect. I've been a pro and amateur musician all along, depending on which instrument is referred to, a luthier, historic instrument curator, AND I'm an avid photographer, happily and permanently amateur.
I'm likewise struck with a strong connection between people in the medical professions and music; I see this all the time, tho' I'm not a doctor myself. Is there a photography/medical connection too?

PhotoPhred Loc: Cheyney, Pa

Guitar, mostly finger style folkie and bluesy stuff.

Leon S Loc: Minnesota

Sax and accordion. But I play the radio best.

badapple Loc: Twin Lake, Michigan

Classically trained violinist. Maybe why I keep trying to put my camera under my chin.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

...And Graham Nash even founded Nash Editions, a high-end inkjet (giclee) printing lab. He spoke of the connection between music and photography at the Photo Marketing Association International convention about 8-9 years ago.

I was a vocalist in my youth, while spending several days a week behind my camera or in the darkroom, photographing and writing for my school paper and yearbook, and acting in school musicals. I worked in radio for six years, and was an AV/video/multi-image writer, photographer, editor, programmer, and producer for 8 years. I had 8 other roles at that same yearbook/school portrait company over a total of 33 years.

I definitely see the connection. Creative and communicative arts have few boundaries.

GWZ Loc: Bloomington, IN

When I was much younger I loved my Brownie and developed a passion for photography. I also took piano lessons for 5 years. Right up until my piano teacher suggested to my parents that their money might be better spent on photographic supplies.

PattyW60 Loc: Northwest Illinois

Count me in, Erik! Music, photography and sports are my passions. Played the trombone and drums in high school and college. These days, I still play drums at church and for our community choir, sing in the choir, and play hand bells. Playing percussion allows me to express my creative feeling through music, while photography has helped me learn to see things more creatively.

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

I grew up in a musical family where mom, her mom and dad, and all their cousins, aunts, uncles, etc., played instruments. Mom played the piano and organ, and was one of the accompanists for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She started all the children (9 of us--Mormon, remember) on piano at the age of 2. The summer before entering first grade, we had to choose a second instrument to play since the grade school had a music program. But we had to write a research paper on either the instrument, someone who played the instrument, or a composer for the instrument. Six years old and writing research papers. Where was my childhood? I wrote mine on Peter Tchaikovsky and started violin in first grade. In third grade I started voice as well. Still play piano, and my husband has two piano performance degrees and plays throughout the San Diego area and accompanies students in private lessons and in auditions for symphonies, choirs, and operas. I gave up violin in 1993 when I moved to San Diego and became a beach bum. Still sing, mostly with gay choruses in San Francisco and San Diego, as well as the shower...........LOL