{"id":924,"date":"2017-10-27T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2017-10-28T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:52:35","slug":"now-everyones-a-photographer-chapter-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/now-everyones-a-photographer-chapter-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Everyone&rsquo;s a Photographer &#8211; chapter 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&rsquo;s easy isn&rsquo;t it &#8211; you press on the button, take a photo and bamm! You&rsquo;re a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&rsquo;t matter what you take a photograph of &#8211; proof of this is the famous &lsquo;Beckham&rsquo; photo book. Apparently one of the Beckham brood, named Brooklyn (<em>but why not Clapham or Willesden?<\/em>) decided he was a photographer one day, and that he was SO good he&rsquo;d produce a book.<\/p>\n<p>He must have been REALLY good because, to date, the book that has been out a few months has sold 3890 copies (probably to his groupie friends). Wow! He must be <strong>so<\/strong> talented&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/beckham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/beckham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/beckham.jpg 634w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/beckham-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is <strong>Beckham<\/strong> &#8211; you can see he&rsquo;s good because he&rsquo;s holding a camera&#8230;or did I mean sucking a Chupa Chups, or wearing a Ford t-shirt? Oh, and I forgot to mention, he&rsquo;s 10, or 15 or something like that. One memorable photograph was of an elephant &#8211; or rather it wasn&rsquo;t &#8211; by the time the photo was taken the elephant had got bored and moved off &#8211; the caption read something like \u00ab\u00a0it had to be seen to be believed\u00a0\u00bb &#8211; bit like his &lsquo;talent&rsquo;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is becoming more and more the &lsquo;norm&rsquo; &#8211; everywhere you look people are declaring \u00ab\u00a0Now I&rsquo;m a photographer\u00a0\u00bb despite the fact that they have no discernable talent &#8211; minor problem really. Be like the film critic in the Monty Python sketch &#8211; just shout louder in public.<\/p>\n<p>I laughed the other day when one of these &lsquo;photographers&rsquo; (Pro you know, not just an ordinary photographer) decided to announce on Facebook\u00a0 &#8211;<em> after being a &lsquo;pro&rsquo; for about three days<\/em> &#8211; that from now on, all his previously &lsquo;free&rsquo; work would now be &lsquo;paid&rsquo; work. All this without ever actually bothering to show what he is capable of, in terms of &lsquo;paid&rsquo; work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh I forgot, he did put up a message asking people to give him ideas for what he could take photographs of&#8230;a real pro!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE\u00a0<\/strong>: This just gets better &#8211; today our &lsquo;Pro&rsquo; photographer posted this on Facebook<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/eb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/eb.jpg 513w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/eb-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I rather get the impression that everyone else has to do his work for him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&rsquo;s easy isn&rsquo;t it &#8211; you press on the button, take a photo and bamm! You&rsquo;re a photographer. Doesn&rsquo;t matter what you take a photograph of &#8211; proof of this is the famous &lsquo;Beckham&rsquo; photo book. Apparently one of the Beckham brood, named Brooklyn (but why not Clapham or Willesden?) decided he was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/now-everyones-a-photographer-chapter-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Now Everyone&rsquo;s a Photographer &#8211; chapter 19&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}