p.9 #2 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
...you learn the phrase "soccer mom" is synonymous with "Beelzebub."
...you spend more time picking five and six year-olds up off the ice than you do shooting them on team photo day.
...the phrase "I would love to shoot your child" is a double-entendre.
...you've been to football games so boring, your best shots were of the drunken brawl that broke out in the stands behind you.
...you've had a cowboy turn down your roping photos because you made his horse look fat.
...you know all the rules for hurling, rugby, Irish football, and cricket but have never actually been to the UK.
...your response to, "If I had that gear, I could be a pro, too," is, "If I put a scalpel in your hand, does that make you a f*****g surgeon?"
p.9 #3 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
- When it rains a little bit, you hope for more rain just for the fact that your pictures look awsome with heavy rain around the players
- When you come home and the dog isn't sniffing your feet because there was artificial grass during an out-game instead of real grass on your home ground that night.
p.9 #4 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
...when you walk into the high school gym, and the AD immediately heads over to the wall to turn on the other half of the lights.
...when you tell the 20 year old Pharmacy Tech at Walgreens, "Hey, I took a picture of you playing volleyball that still pops up on my screen saver from time-to-time" and she remembers you AND is not creeped out.
...when show up to shoot a working building fire, and the Batallion Chief walks over to tell you how "cool that shot of my nephew's catch you put in the paper last week" was.
p.9 #5 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
I was shooting the SCCA June Sprints one year, carrying my 1D MkIIn with the 500 f/4 ona monopod and my MkII with the 70-200 over my shoulder when some fat old guy comes up to the fence behind me and asks "how many megapixels are those" pointing to my cameras. There was a break in the action and I really couldn't politely ignore him so I answered "8". (I figured 8.2 would just confuse him)
He turned and smugly walked away, saying as he did, "Mine's 10!!"
It was some nondescript Point&Shoot, but he was sure proud of the fact that he had a "better" camera than mine.
And people wonder why we sometimes just ignore them.
p.9 #7 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
mwaller wrote:
1. You have a parent call blaming you because "you" spelled the name wrong on her trading cards........only to find out when you pull the order form that they spelled their own kids name wrong!
Just had a football mom with three kids who mixed up which teams her kids were on, yelling at us over the phone that we should have known better. "Couldn't we tell by the jersey colors?" The entire league has the same jerseys....
...When you get a check for $75 attached to a blank order form because "Doesn't the photographer fill out the order?!" (Was sent in by mail)
p.9 #8 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
Once I was so sick of being heckled by idiots in the crowd, there was one guy big noting himself in front of his mates and thinking he was being funny. I'd reached the end of my tether at a 4 day race meeting, late nights editing, hot, sore feet etc etc.
I ended up asking him if I came into his office and annoyed him while he was at work.
He looked blankly at me and said "No, why"
I then told "well don't f****ck'n annoy me while I'm at work."
His mates thought it was the funniest thing and he shut up then and there - priceless.
p.9 #12 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
freaklikeme wrote:
...your response to, "If I had that gear, I could be a pro, too," is, "If I put a scalpel in your hand, does that make you a f*****g surgeon?"
HAHAHAHAHA, thats probably the best one I have read yet, so true also, lots of people think its all about the equipment
p.9 #13 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
When you show up at an event and all your friends are drooling and ask "Is that YOUR camera?"
When someone asks "how many pictures did you take during the game?" and you say "Somewhere around 700" and they think you're joking.
