Photographing women and girls as a hobby?
Seems a little creepy to me.
Started off using photography (which was still relatively new) to help with his cartoons, then really got into it in its own right.
One of his first illustration jobs was for an edition of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. It's by turns conventional, surreal, and frightening. He was very eclectic.
Book's worth reading on its own account, you have to stick with it and remember that the rabbit trails and lengthy asides are part of the fun. It's apparently a fairy story (he says so! :-) ) but there is also a great deal of human observation, natural history, ferocious satire, and deep feeling. Kingsley had an anti-Catholic streak that I don't care for (and he waded into a controversy with Cdl. Newman on that account and might as well have walked into a buzzsaw - he had his head handed to him) but for all that he was a fine writer, a loving father, and a Christian gentleman.