monkeykoder
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I think he deserves a cookie maybe even a bag of cookies.
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This thread seems to lack the cynicism of the original Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
So breathing new life into the corpse...
Amateur Photographer
Someone who seeks to excuse their lack of knowledge about the subject by claiming they only do it for fun.
Professional Photographer
An amateur photographer who believes that they now know all about photography because they get money for doing it.
Digital Photography
A method of taking pictures that requires no more brain cells than can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Hence the use of the word 'digital'.
Photoshop
The modern equivalent of the Philosophers Stone believed by many to be a way of turning garbage into gold.
Photography
A means of producing life-like images for people with no artistic talent but with lots of artistic pretensions.
Camera
A box with a hole in it that some believe to be magical.
Professional Camera
An expensive box with a hole in it that some believe to be the Holy Grail.
Alternative Processes
The manual equivalent of Photoshop.
Ego
A quality akin to self-importance possessed by both amateur and professional photographers that increases in size exponentially with the amount of equipment owned, whilst being in inverse proportion to their talent.
Composition
The Rule of Thirds.