…to speak of many things, of ships and shoes and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. I was shopping earlier this week at a store and the sign in the shop next door caught my eye. They had several large signs telling of their many talents: screen printing, custom t-shirts, trophies, embroidery, pest extermination, and, of course, photography. Really? All that and photography too? With today’s digital cameras and their on-board computers, along with sophisticated editing software, making a decent looking image is easier than ever. However, just because a screen printing, embroidering, trophy maker/exterminator has a camera, it does not make him a photographer. In fact, just because an image was made with a camera doesn’t even make it a photograph. In this day when there are snapshooters pretending to operate a camera that knows more about photography than the operator, real photographers are becoming a dying breed. What are your thoughts?