It's not a career until...

[Warren Toda]

Your photography career isn't complete until you have photographed:

• lasers (or sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads)
• fireworks (big ones, and not your next-door neighbour's Canada Day blast)
• underwater
• surgery
• an autopsy (hopefully not related to the previous surgery)
• while hanging out the side of a helicopter (probably with a safety harness) 
• from a window washer's platform many stories up
• from an ultralight or paraglider
• a Mr and Mrs Nude Canada (or whatever title) pageant
• a birth (ideally human, or thereabouts)
• from a steel beam a few hundred feet high in a building construction site.
• in a mine, a few thousand feet down

Have I left anything out?

[Ron Bernardo]

well, surgery and birth can be one...if it is a C-section, right?

what about taking macro shots of tiny insects or bacteria?

[Phill Snel]

How about....
You spent the entire day outside (in sub-zero temperatures of course) staking out some politician/criminal (or combination sometimes) only to find out that they eluded you and everyone else by taking some sneaky way out. The only thing you got that day was a cold!



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[Colin Corneau]

Someone giving you the finger - maybe on the perp walk Phill mentioned.

A squirrel water-skiing.

Live ammunition being fired, in anger.

[Yvonne Berg]

 .... you've watched a brain pulsate during surgery. Very cool. One of those made-for-video moments.

[Fred Lum]

you get grief about your cool fishing vest

[Rod MacIvor]

your editors order you to sneak into a hospital to get photos without permission.....

[Moe Doiron]

A squirrel water-skiing.

 

1. Your photo on the front page of a major daily with someone else's credit.

[Randy Fiedler]

You've been through at least three major technological changes.

[Amber Bracken]

you get an assignment to shoot a portrait of someone just diagnosed with an infectious airborne disease...

[Derek Ruttan]

A cop drags you by the neck.

[Derek Ruttan]

You throw your shoes at a world leader.

[David Rossiter]

You pull 9Gs in a F-16.   
You have your camera bag urinated on by a hugh Rottweiler.
You are pepper sprayed.
You are medicated for smoke inhalation.

you ..... next up

[Colin Corneau]

David, check your pulse to see if you're actually still alive!!!

[Jackson Couse]

you've photographed a 14 year old in a mermaid suit.