Saturday Fun (週末笑一笑)

Some say that photographers are violent: they frame you, they shoot you and they hang you up on a wall!

Photography can be an absorbing hobby. When it's 30 degrees, you wipe the beads of sweat from your forehead. When it's raining, you still want to take that shot of that crystal clear water drop dripping from a leaf, albeit under an umbrella.  You're prepared to walk 6 hours to get that spectacular angle on the landscape which you saw somebody else before you did. Photographers have the weirdest kinds of thought. They are jokes. But you think they care?

Now check if you're a photographer or got the potential to be one. But don't have any illusions, being a photographer is no guarantee that you'll be a good one! Whatever the outcome may be, have some fun.


1. Have you got got 30,000 family photos neatly categories in Lightroom but not a single photo of yourself?

2. When you see a new car, do you figure out the price in terms of how many 5D Mark IIs or your power bill in terms of how many monopods or tripods?

3. Are your carry-on backpack and shoulder bag on any flight heavier than your checked baggage?

4. Are you now on your fifth tripod and finally decide it’s time to buy a Gitzo?

5. Do you look at a desk full of tax returns, utility and other household bills and wonder how you could photograph the stack ?

6. Do you adjust the angle of your head or change your line of vision for a more interesting composition whilst doing daily work?

7. Do your friends tell you that they don’t take pics of their own kids
playing any more wherever you're around  because they know YOU will be there doing it
every chance you get?

8. Does everyone hand you their cameras at family events and say”take some photos for me”?

9. Does the image taken as a visual memo with your phone have a sophisticated composition?

10. Does the sign “no flash photography” means nothing to you and makes you laugh, because YOU don’t need a flash?

11. Do you think in f-stops?

12. Do you pity members of the public when you see them using their little pocket digital cameras with autofocusing?

13. Will you starve yourself and hold your urine just to get that last 30 minutes of the golden-hour of the day?

14.Have you finally become oblivious to the odd stares you get when you
whip out your camera to take a sweet shot that no one else seems to
notice but you?

15. Do you wish you had a camera installed in your retina ?


Now you know if you are or have got potential to become a serious photographer.

It's weekend. Shutter bug time! Happy shooting.