I have always pictured professional photographers as ones who take nature shots (scenery types, as opposed to wild life shots where you look a tiger straight in the eye). They’d be somewhere in the middle of nowhere, standing with a coffee mug in one hand, a smoke in another. They’d be standing all dressed up like an eskimo, weathering the strong winds, waiting for the first glimpse of sunlight to come out. Standing ready with a Nikon F75 mounted with a Nikkor 28-100G lens and loaded with Fuji Velvia slide film steadily propped up on a Manfrotto tripod. (haha, yes, I’m BSing, but you can’t stop a guy from dreaming)

This semi-amateur goes round with his Nikon Coolpix 5400 and el-cheapo tripod in a school bag. Instead of a smoke, he takes pictures to the tunes in his iPod. Very contrasting design to what he thinks a professional photographer should look like…

* end of silly story *

Okie, so I didn’t end up on the beach as I expected today. Something else came up. And as not to disappoint, here’s a filler instead.

*Hint: Give the picture a click.