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[quote=Anonymous]I am one of three sisters. We are all married and two of us have kids. My third sister struggled with miscarriages and infertility for years before deciding to be childless about 3 years ago as she found it too hard to have another loss. At that time she started attending family events (and we have many as we live close together) with her camera and being the photographer. It was definitely her way of coping, and she pretty much hid behind the camera. It became  her thing. Initially we all kind of really encouraged it and were very positive and appreciative of all the pics as we were glad she had this hobby and that it gave her a role that she enjoyed at family events. However over the next year or so it became quite annoying. She established herself as 'the' photographer and would tell others to put their camera away and she would send her pics around. She started taking more and more pics - hundreds at every event like a professional photographer would at a wedding. She started repeatedly asking people to pose and it felt like every events was hostage to her camera. We tried to talk to her about it a couple times but she got very upset, saying things along the lines or you have your kids, let me have this...and asking us if we didn't like the pics. Once her feelings were hurt and she came without her camera but barely engaged with us and my mother told her that she should take pictures again (grrr!) to make her feel better. So she got right back to it. Everyone dreads events now due to feeling like the paparazzi are there. Due to this being her focus, she has become quite a good photographer and gets a psotive response generally and now she almost feels like we are privileged to have her taking great pics of the kids and us. The last birthday she came with a basket of props and everyone had to use the props in pictures. Kind of the last straw for me - I need to talk to her again. Seeing as the other couple attempts ended up in very hurt feelings, any other ways to get her to tone down?[/quote]

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