So my wife wrote a little commentary on a piece written by a professional photographer (with a whole three years under her belt). A couple of people and I commented, and then this got left by someone too cowardly to even leave contact info (Michelle removed it):

You people are stupid! Just because you bought a digital camera at Walmart doesnt mean that you know how to make a picture or process it correctly in you PC of shit computer. Photographers are not SNOBS, they are working professionals who are trained to capture moments in time.

And one cannot help but wonder why this troll even bothered. Photographers are not “trained to capture moments in time” but rather trained how to take pictures and work a camera. Someone with natural talent can go far taking pictures without any “professional” training. The thought process that people can be trained, in any shape, form, or fashion, to “capture moments in time” could only be the deluded fantasy of one who watched too many Kodak commercials while young. Aside from the rest of the faulty logic it is obvious that the person who left the comment has precious little education based on the lack of punctuation and the horrendous grammar contained in the brief venomous spew they felt compelled to bang out on their keyboard.

Nevermind that none of us who commented referred to all professional photographers as snobs but rather a specific set of them. This set of “professionals” (note the use of quotes) believes things such as they should be served the same food as the guests at a wedding and the bride and groom should forgo tradition to make the photographer’s life easier. It is to these people that we give the internet version of the middle finger. Had anyone with any spark of intelligence read the comments they would have realized that the comments were based on the type of attitude presented in the article and not at professional photographers as a whole. There are always people who give their industry a bad name and the author of the article in question is, in my not so humble opinion, one of them.

I couldn’t help but point out the idiocy. My wife is much more civilized than I and simply removed the comment because it’s her blog and she’ll do what she wants with it. Me, well I prefer to bring this sort of thing to light and make snide remarks about it. Does that make me better than the person who wrote the comment? Probably not. Nonetheless it amuses me…