Re: no, everybody's not a photographer

[Herschel Mair <herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I love about professional photographers is their sense of 
entitlement.  It would stun a Pharoh. It's hilarious.
I get a lot of lucky shots and, honestly, my degree isn't worth the 
paper its printed on. My experience is a hit and miss business. I'm on 
the street like a newbie and often the newbie will get the job instead 
of me. They'll have a so-so baseball player pic in the portfolio and the 
client wants a baseball player shot. My beautiful pictures of cricket 
players only serves to illustrate that I can't shoot baseball players.

But I remember being a newbie and getting breaks and the way it made me 
high so I just smile at the memory. The newbie will do the job without 
an assistant and without $20 000.00 lighting. But he might have the 
necessity and spunk to think of a new way to do it and come up with a 
new  and fresh image.

The profession's dying. The need for it is dying. Maybe it was never of 
any value in the first place. "Professional".... hahahaaaa.... what are 
we, brain surgeons?