Top Ten Reasons You Might Be a Photographer.......

10.  You have nightmares of people using the “P mode”  we won’t even talk about the “green mode.”  That’s just too scary.

9.  If you have 30,000 family photos neatly categorized in Lightroom.  Zero photos of you.

8.  When at a car dealership, you translate the price of a car in your head to “Eight 5D Mark III’s.” Or your last power bill cost two monopods.

7.  Touchdown plays are somewhat distracting because you can see the white glass on the sidelines

6.  You are frequently greeted with “What are you taking a picture of?!?” instead of “hello.”

5.  You’d rather buy the shirt that more closely resembles 18% gray

4.  Your carry-on is heavier than your checked bags

3.  You describe disgusting old dilapidated barns as “beautiful”  (via Lori Anderson)

2.  Number of lenses > Pairs of shoes you own (Carsten Deutschmann)

1.  You actually believe a wizard could fit in your pocket.

And it can.

From Improve Photography

Some others:

- You’ve gotten a ticket for an illegal u-turn– to go back for THE SHOT (Becca Morrison)

- You pity, and judge, members of the public when you see them using their big, fancy DSLR in… automatic… (Chad Dumbris)

- You think in f-stops (Jackie Buys)

- You have finally become oblivious to the odd stares you get when you whip out your camera to take a sweet shot that no one else seems to notice but you (Deborah Austin)

- You watch a movie and pay more attention to the lighting and composition than what’s happening in the movie (Mike Dellerman)

- While wearing polarizing sunglasses, you rotate your head left and right to assess what impact your circular polarizing filter might have on a potential shot (Ron Tripp)

- You wish you had a camera installed in your retina (Kellie Allen)

- Everywhere you go to take pictures some one is stopping to take a picture behind you (Mike Dellerman)