A photographer’s life

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Melissa Worden

To celebrate Sport Shooter’s 100th newsletter and for a little inspiration, Herald-Tribune photographer Chip Litherland and other photographers via aphotoaday.org compiled a list of 100 Things Completely Right About Our Jobs.

I’m not a photographer, but I still got a kick out of reading this. Here are a few of my favorite entries:

3. Looking at people for an extremely long amount of time and not having to feel creepy about it.

7. Experiencing both the best and the worst parts of peoples lives, sometimes in the same day.

40. Every time you tell someone what you do, they NEVER say “Oh, man, that must suck.”

54. Never waking up to the same two assignments, shooting the same damn thing, or meeting the same damn people.

61. Putting down the camera and listening, because people will tell you the damndest things just for being a stranger that cares.

64. It takes one picture to say what a 30 inch story can, and it translates into every language imaginable.

Fun stuff. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we don’t have to wait until the 200th anniversary list to see something about the Web/multimedia on it. ;)

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One Response to “A photographer’s life”

chip litherland on May 2nd, 2007 9:59 pm

Ha ha…

Of course, #101 will be working with the fabulous web team on inspiring pieces of multimedia journalism.

Chip

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