You'd be surprised.
Do you know who this guy is?
http://www.billatkinson.com/Homepage.pl
I've seem quite a few stories over the years of programmers getting into photog. After all, once Bill Atkinson had unraveled the foundations of the universe (
), what else could he do next except understand it's beauty and mystery.
Heck, I love taking pics myself. My son makes money at it....and, yeah, he started doing web pages when he was 12.