That is a completely ignorant thing to say Thom. If it was that easy then every person w/a cell phone full of pics would be a famous & wealthy photographer. Anybody can take a picture, to take one interesting enough to make others want to look at it is a whole other thing. It takes talent, education & practice just like any other skill from being a musician to being a chef to being anything other than a dumb ass like you.

Geez Thom, you're another one of those people on AOL who have the gift of being able to judge a whole segment of the population without ever having seen or met them. Somehow, AOL's boards seem to be replete with people like you. Mind sharing how you came to such a gross generalization of photographers you've never met?

Isn't she the child pornographer, who took half-naked pics of Miley Cyrus?

Were that true so many millions of family photos would not have the heads cut off. Photography is art. It's timing, placement, and an intellegent, compassionate, intuitive third eye. You're probably just really that ugly.

I wish someone would hand you a camera...let's see if your shot would be worth $50million. Art is in the eye of the beholder, clearly you haven't an eye for anything but sh*t. Small minded assinine jerk. Annie L. is a giant among her peers, a brilliant photog.

while it takes no talent to click a camera it takes alot of of talent to take a good pictures. Most people can't do it.
that why a picture you see on post card looks different then one in most a photo alblums

it sound to me like you either have never taken a photo class , don't know how to take pictures or is just out to start a debate .
people see things differently so there are millions of different stiles in photography .

look at the nude it is more the just tell a woman to put on make up and take off her clothes. there is lighting, keeping the woman comfortable , costuming and or back grounds (a nude picture with no thought to it is not the sexual ),
asking her what she doesn't mind doing costuming because she is posing for you it doesnt matter how much money she's being payed if she doesn't look like she injoying the setion the picture will look like crap and no amount of photoshop can fix that .

good day

You sound jealous, ignorant and just plain bitter.

Now if you think photographers so lowly, go take a photograph or two, and see if 5 people will want to buy it for say, ah, 500.00 a piece. I bet you'd shut your stupid face then!!

Don't be so ignorant!!

Any one can snap a picture. Until you can tell the difference between a picture and photo you need not speak!!! Don't show the work how dumb you really are.

What an assinine thing to say. It's an art form. If you don't understand it, say you don't understand it.

It may take no talent to press the shutter, but it does take a creative vision to set up the shot.

In photography either you have the eye or you don't.

Your ignorance is showing, dear. Why are there major collections of photographs at major art museums? And just perhaps, if you knew something about art and about photographpy, you might understand why it counts.

1. was she ever pretty?
2. does she ever do her hair?
3. is she like the paparazzi? looks like she has as much class as they do.
4. those pros, take 100 pictures to get 1 good one. and they call them pros? hardly. never saw a carpenter pound 100 nails to get 1 good one.
5.some jobs/professions require little skill. this is one, same as politics.
6. looks like a homeless person.

Yeah I agree Gary. I am a semi-pro (I get paid once in a blue moon, mostly I shoot for photo credit and fun) photog. I have maybe 1 in 20 on a REALLY good day that ok, and maybe 1 in 20 of those are acceptable, and maybe, just maybe, if my subject is good, the lighting is perfect and I don't screw it up, I get 3 out of 400 that totally GREAT photos.

for all of the above that think its hard to take pictures.
i do fine with my digital, if you can't take decent pictures, you are all stupid. learn how to point the damn thing, morons. and she takes porno.

Just bend over and he'll give you the "tip" you richly deserve.