No, no, NO! You pompous idiots; putting “Photography” after your name on Flickr does not somehow magically make you a photographer. Watch…

Mean and Pinchy Photography

See? I even made the text bold and it didn’t do a goddamned thing; I’m still the same fool stomping through the woods and slogging through pond muck, chasing bugs with a two year-old P&S Canon and an adapter or two. Even if I coughed up a couple of thousand bucks for a fancy DSLR and some nice lenses, I’d still be some fool stomping through the woods and slogging through pond muck, chasing bugs. Oh, so you’re going to earn back the money you spent on that ridiculously expensive Canon or Nikon by selling your photos, are you? Do you have any idea how many other people had that very same idea, some of whom even have actual talent? Yeah…one or two. You just go ahead and try; submit that 5000th photo of your cat or yet-another-butterfly, or the pink roses in your back yard to a stock photography site and sit back while the cash rolls in. The more generous places will give you as much as a quarter for each download…that new camera will pay for itself in no time! Well, it will if they accept your shots in the first place; stock photo sites get so many submissions that they can afford to be really picky. So…no, “J&J Photography”, taking your first initial and that of your fat wife and sticking “photography” after it doesn’t mean your shots are any good (they aren’t), and it for goddamned sure doesn’t make you a photographer. You, sir, are a weekend snapshooter, just like the other “Whatever Photography” people, and just like I am, so spare us all the pretentious bullshit, please.