Is this a compliment?
tgkelly wrote: I take it as a compliment and reply that I taught it everything it knows as I'm walking away. Leaves them wondering.
Replied with class! Nice job!
Joshua Atkins wrote: Same here! Heard lots of this comment before. But I know better. I just smile sarcastically!
rmeyer7 wrote: Go ahead and take it as a compliment. Just try not to take it as an insult when the same people say, "It must be so nice to have a job where you just push a button all day."
I wont I know better. Thanks for this!
Alyssa Briggs wrote: Nice! I heard this myself as well.
Bryston3bsst wrote: I take these kinds of comments as a compliment in the sense that it's my work that people are looking at. And, as mentioned above, they don't realize that it's not the camera that takes a great picture. So, in their ignorance, they're actually kind of insulting you because you are the person responsible for making the picture they are looking at, not the camera. The camera is simply a tool that allows you and your eye to create images that attract people's attention.
I always loved this:
“A group of artists are invited for dinner by a famous chef.
In greeting the photographer, the chef comments:
I love your photos, they’re wonderful, you must have a very expensive
camera. The photographer doesn’t reply and walks into the dining room.
After dinner the photographer approaches the chef and says:
Dinner was sensational, very exquisite flavors, a true work of art,
you must have a very expensive stove.”
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