Is photography a dying vocation / career ?

Having cameras in phones, and digital photography in general, everybody thinks they are a photographer and very few ever appreciate the nuances of what makes a good photograph.

I see fewer and fewer actual cameras for sale in stores because everyone thinks their phone cam is all they need (and in most cases, that's as far as their photography interest goes).

Then you have the people who buy a DSLR and think that makes them a photographer. I did some work after graduating from studying photography in college and quickly got disgusted with dealing with public ignorance, duplicity, and people's distorted ideas of how they think they look vs. how they actually look. Then you have those who when you price a job for them, pop off with this shit, "My uncle/cousin/brother has a Nikon, they wouldn't charge me anything." To which my response is, "Oh, by all means go ahead and get them. See ya."

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