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Qualified Assessments – Fool’s Gold For Our Egos

Qualified assessments of our skill as photographers can be fool’s gold for our ego. I learned this one night when channel surfing the TV and my wife asked a question. After we finished talking, I noticed that I had landed on America’s Got Talent, not a show I would normally watch. An older woman had…

How To Handle An “Insult” Photographers Get Frequently – Part 2

Sad to say, but needing to know how to handle a pseudo-insult that photographers get frequently is just part of the job description.  In Part 1 we discussed how to handle the “You must have a really good camera.” pseudo-insult.  The second most common one is much subtler and really doesn’t sound very offensive until…

How To Handle An “Insult” Photographers Get Frequently – Part 1

Whether you’re an experienced photographer or a “newbie” sooner or later someone will make a comment about your photography that you may think is, well, rather insulting.  I’m not talking about criticism which is about what I don’t like and most importantly why I don’t like it.  I am talking about an insult; something that…