I am not a professional.

The term professional has been used extremely loosely by us these days. When you see someone with a huge (compared to the standard point and shoot digicam), he is automatically termed as a ‘professional’. Now let me see.. someone mentioned that a professional is someone whose income is 100% derived from him being a photographer.

So let’s see, yes I do make some.. a little… a bit… a miserly amount of money from taking photographs, but I do have a day job which I give priority to. So I am not a professional.

Anyways, like I said, here in Malaysia, there are a lot of self-proclaimed ‘professional’ photographers going about extending their photography services and lately, even to photo critism. *gosh* I tell you, it is like a structural engineer having a nice bowl of pork mee and the despatch boy who delivered design plans for a bridge just that morning sitting at the next table talking loudly to his friends about how a particular bridge design is flawed and it should be designed.

So these people who just got their digital SLR last month, starts to plough through online websites, blogs and photography forums and posts moronic comments and trying to give stupid suggestions. And then, some newbie who is about to buy a digital SLR camera sees the comments and goes…

“Waaaa… dem professional la this fellow..“

And the best thing is.. these ‘professionals’ punya photos…*sigh*.. let’s put it this way, my 1 year old niece, playing with my camera phone and accidentally takes a photo.. that photo is better than theirs.

Oops.. did I just make a general critism? Wahaha..
Hai.. whatever lar. You know what they say… In the valley of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Unfortunately, this one eyed man is shortsighted and has cataracts and his valley of the blind is actually valley of what the one eyed man thinks is all blind.

Sorry guys… bad start to the morning. Need something to vent all these negative energy.

Have a good day… peace!

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