Are you a professional photographer?
This is a question I've been facing very often lately.
I keep looking for the right answer. That is because to me, a professional photographer is either a master in the field, or a person like some photographers I know, who are very talented, experienced and skillful. Hummm...
I came up with my best answer (which I love): I am on my way to be one!
I've found, however, that answer to be kind of confusing for most folks who look at me puzzled, as if I hadn't answered the question at all.
After I realized that, I decided to say instead : "Yes! I am a professional photographer!. It sounds better to most people, I guess, and I need to get used to hear it myself.
I am a professional photographer not because I am a master or because I am in business, and never because of my equipment, my equipment size or brand or how many megapixels my camera offers, but because I behave like a pro.
What does that mean? That means that I think (and I fight myself to do so) before I "click". I think, plan, compose. I study, I do research, I practice and I practice again. I make choices to create my photographs. That also means that I take pictures in my mind, with no camera and that "I notice" things.
I am on my way to be better, that is for sure and part of the excitement is to envision all I still have to learn. That is such a happy wish! A colorful, hopeful, determined tireless wish.
Busco mi Arco Iris en cada recodo del trayecto.
