On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not a professional photographer, and I am not a professional choral > singer (I am an enthusiastic amateur at both). I =am= a professional > physician. > > Professional photographers and professional choral singers make the best of > whatever situation they encounter. Crappy light, bickering families at a > wedding, a lousy choir they're helping out as a "ringer"--they put it aside > and turn in a good performance. > > Similarly, I encounter occasional families I don't like, and =lots= of > situations I don't like, but I put my feelings aside and do the best I can. > > +That+ is what being a professional is about. It is not just a question of > doing what you're paid for; it's a question of turning in your best even when > everything sucks.
I think that's a wonderful post. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
