jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

You and your girlfriend go to a local photo exhibit. Typically, she keeps saying, over and over again, “Why can’t you take pictures like that? How hard can it be?” When the tour of the exhibit is thankfully finished, you bring her home, complaining about a toothache, stomach ache, headache - whatever. Anything to get away from her putting you down because you’re not a professional photographer.

Determined to prove to her that you actually are a great photographer, you decide to buy new equipment. You tell the salesman at the camera store that you want the best camera they have. Not noticing the huge smile appear on his face, you follow him to the counter. He produces what he says is the best camera money can buy. “It’s impossible to take a bad picture with this camera,” he assures you. Fortunately, you received a new credit card in the mail the day before, so you max that out and buy the camera. “And what about lenses?” the salesman asks. “Lenses? You mean it doesn’t come with lenses?” After twenty minutes and three more filled credit cards, you have a backpack full of “the best lenses that money can buy” and various essentials.

When you get to your car, you quickly insert an SD card and pop one of the lenses onto the camera. Then you head to the river. After shooting several hundred shots of ducks and trees, you switch lenses until you have used every lens in your backpack and filled three SD cards. Placing the camera on the passenger's seat, you head to your girlfriend’s house to show her the “best pictures that money can take.” She hardly recognizes you as she answers the door because of the wild, excited expression on your face. “Wait till you see the pictures I’ve taken!” you shout at her. When the shock wears off, she lets you into the house, and the two of you struggle to connect the camera to the TV for - The Presentation.

As the forty-seventh image appears on the screen, you realize that these pictures are no good at all. Finally, your girlfriend says, “Maybe you should have gotten a more expensive camera.”

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

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Pablo_B Loc: UK

hahah love it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Sounds like a well-orchestrated plan to deal with G.A.S.

steve w Loc: Mesquite, TX

Methinks it would just be easier and cheaper to just "buy" a new girlfriend.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Maybe he should have gotten a less expensive girlfriend.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Definitely!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

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Hi Pablo_B...................... Just read your posting ................ Hope we do not get too many mix-ups with our ID's...Regards Pablo8.

Japakomom Loc: Originally from the Last Frontier

Hopefully this is not autobiographical.

wilsondl2 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska

We all say it is the photographer not the equipment that makes the picture. Not always true. For example it is almost impossible to get good Bokeh with most kit lenses. Think a bit and you can come up with pictures that you need certain and sometimes expensive to get what you want. Of course you have to know how to use the equipment. That said after a year the expensive lenses etc. are still in use while some of the make do junk is in the closet. Dave

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Just the part about "Why can't you...?"

Japakomom Loc: Originally from the Last Frontier

Maybe she needs a "why can't you ...?"