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Your photographs are wonderful – you must have a great\u00a0camera<\/h1>\n

There is an amusing anecdote doing the rounds as a graphic on Facebook and elsewhere – it’s a quote ascribed to Sam Haskins. Now, if you consider the number of quotes that get propagated on Facebook that are ascribed to Morgan Freeman, I’m surprised Sam Haskins even got a mention. But I digress.<\/p>\n

The quote relates a story where a photographer smacks down a socialite in New York for some comment about the photographer’s camera. Well, here it is, and it kinda rankles me …<\/p>\n

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Photographers on FB keep reposting versions of this idea, reveling in the put-down. People get all high and mighty about the perceived insult. \u00a0No one should dare snub the sheer Artistry of their work! It all sounds a little defensive in the end.<\/p>\n

My<\/strong> take on this is entirely different.\u00a0What I get from that comment by people is that they are just trying to make conversation. Now,\u00a0if someone tells me that my photographs are lovely and I must have a good camera, then my reply is usually, “hell yeah!”. \u00a0Or if it is a client (or family of a client), then it’s a more polite, “yes it is!”. Then we chat about photography and stuff. We’re all cool.<\/p>\n

Hence my version of how the anecdote should play out.<\/p>\n

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