You know you are a great photographer when...

<p>1 - You can tell a photo editor "don't even THINK about cropping my photo".<br>

2 - You can say to a beautiful model "lose the top!".<br>

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<p>3- When you turn down projects to far-off destinations because your kid has a cold.<br>

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<p>You are known merely by your surname.</p>

<p>4- When you have an entourage.<br>

5- When many non-photographers know your name.<br>

6- When a major camera company <em><strong>gives</strong></em> you its cameras for your use.<br>

7- When people include your name along side Ansel Adams.<br>

8- When you don't need an on-line photo site like photo.net to "get your images out there."<br>

9- When you have more frequent flyer miles than the CEO of a very major international company. </p>

<p>10 - When people will pay hundreds of dollars to sit around in a cold cabin in North Dakota, sipping whiskey, just to listen to you pontificate about everything but photography.<br>

11 - When the camera companies use you in their ads after giving you the free stuff to try.</p>

<p>12 - You see things differently . . . and can show that.</p>

<p>13: You die alone and forgotten and pennyless then someone else comes along and makes a fortune off your work when it is rediscovered (Atget, Brady, Man Ray, et al).</p>

<p>14: You die alone having never been discovered then someone buys your junk and makes a fortune off your work (Vivien Maier, et al).</p>

<p>15: When you can take a prize winning photo with a box camera.</p>

<p>16. you are me, <em>duh</em>.</p>

 

<p>17. When a funeral home asks for free use of one of your landscape photos for publication in their brochure.</p>

18. When you never even know this thread existed because people are keeping you busy making photographs instead

of thinking about famous.

<p>19 You have a Hero icon <strong>and</strong> a POW icon in PN and are amazingly intelligent and level-headed.</p>

<p>19. When Chuck Norris makes me his exclusive photographer. </p>

<p>As this thread clearly shows, one shouldn't equate "great" with "successful": you can be a great photographer without ever making a penny with your work. That's why I like</p>

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<p>12 - You see things differently . . . and can show that.</p>

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<p>And you will be a successful great photographer if others are willing to pay heaps of money to secure either your photographic services and/or the product of your photographic work...</p>

<p>On the other hand, Dieter, "You see things differently . . . and can show that." doesn't necessarily make you great. It just means you see things differently and are able to show it. Greatness is so much more than that. </p>

<p>20. Dwayne's restarts the Kodachrome line because YOU forgot about your last roll of exposed Kodachrome.</p>

<p>When people stop saying, "Wow! That looks like a painting!"</p>

<p>Les, LOL!</p>

<p>When people use your initials on Photo.net and everyone here knows who they're talking about. Getting the newest model Leicas free and fresh from the factory is a pretty good sign, too.</p>

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<li>When people quit saying "Wow you MUST have a great camera!"</li>

<li>When your is name Simon Jenkins.</li>

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<p><em>When your is name Simon Jenkins.</em></p>

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<p>+1<br /><br />Wow -- are we on same wavelength!<br>

Simon wrote me: <em>"why are you wearing sun glasses on a cloudy day? ;-)"</em></p>

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23. When a customer calls for repeat business.

<p>3. you tell them bears to " SIT DOWN AN POSE FOR ME ME, DAMMIT" and they do !</p><div></div>

<p>Can only think the glasses and hat and glasses came as one piece Ken, Nick the cheque is in the post ;-)</p>

<p>24) Dogs play your favourite tune when you walk into the room.</p><div></div>

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