IELTS Speaking Part 1: negative answers

Here are some negative answers to the 'photography' questions that I showed you a couple of weeks ago. The questions come from Cambridge IELTS 11.

1) What type of photos do you like taking?

Well, I don't usually take photos to be honest. I prefer to enjoy whatever I'm doing, rather than stop to take a photograph.

2) What do you do with photos you take?

I don't really do anything with the occasional photos that I take. They just stay on my phone and I forget to save them or upload them to my computer.

3) When you visit other places, do you take photos or buy postcards?

Neither. As I said, I prefer to enjoy myself, so I tend to let other people take photos. I used to buy and send postcards when I was younger, so maybe I should go back to doing that.

4) Do you like people taking photos of you?

As a child I was always a bit shy when it came to having my photo taken, so I would have said that I didn't like it. These days, if someone wants to take a photo of me, I don't mind at all.

Comments

[Berk]

Dear Simon, I really need your help. I have been searching for hours to understand that "when it came to having my photo taken". I can't understand having+subject+verb. Please, could you explain it? Also, which grammar subject is relevant about it?

[Oleg]

Berk

It's like "I had my hair cut": that is, I asked someone to cut my hair. See:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/passive/have-something-done

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_09_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

[Bao]

Dear Simon,
I don't really understand " it came to having my photo taken" . Please help me to explain it. In particular, having???. If having was have, I can understand. Thank you for your helping.