Re: [Leica] photo professional was.digest...

[tedgrant@islandnet.com (Ted Grant)]

>Harrison wrote:
>
><Heck, Eric, these days  we're all whores. We all shoot garbage, just some
><peoples garbage is better than others garbage. :)
><
><Might as well give up those pipe dreams of a real journalism outlet and start
><shooting fluff and sell your soul as the rest of us have done.
><Believe me it only bothers you when you try to sleep.
>
>If it isn't painful, or too dangerous, I'm in. I thank god for my career
>each day I go to work, even if it's shooting a plate of steaming refried
>beans (last week).
>
>Let's face it, the worst day as a photographer is better than the best day
>at any other job, cows and Ted nowithstanding.>>>>>>>

Folks,

I wouldn't trade my photographic career or the past 45 years for anything!
And if that makes me a "ho" I guess I've earned my badge!

Made some money, not alot compared to many other wiser and more learned
photographers. However, it has been one hummer of a time from one end of
the world and back, met kings and Queens, had to keep my ass and head down
on more than one occaision hoping it wouldn't be my last, more excitment
and fun than any 12 brain surgeons and if I were asked, "would I do it over
again?"

"Hell, Yes without a blink!"  And if it were possible to do it all over
again and I had to sell my soul for one more assignment, I guess I'd have
to say yes! So I guess that makes me a "ho" like all the rest of you
working guys and gals out there.:)

The Army have it all wrong when they say, "There's no life like it!"

Man we have no life like it!! :)  I can't think of any other profession I'd
rather be in, I mean where can you do what you truly love with great
passion and people pay you to do it? :) There really isn't any life like it
and when you screen images and get goose bumps, you know you're doing what
you should be doing.  Being a photgrapher!

Ted Grant
This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant