It's not a career until...

[Derek Ruttan]

You've shared an herbal jazz cigarette with Teenage Head.

[Chris Bolin]

While covering the former president of the United States at a private dinner, the media-flack ( who HAS TO have their picture taken with him ), instructs you after they give you their point and shoot camera to grab a shot –  that's it the big black button top of the camera that makes it "click".

[Daniel Hayduk]

Threatened by the corrupt local police captain in a foreign country to get out of town, or else.

Foreign country?  How about here in Canada, when an RCMP officer threatens you and your loved ones livelihood if one were to think about publishing an image of him smoking a cigar while attempting to bash down a barricaded door with a cinder block at a news scene.   The door did not give way to Mr. Clint Eastwood...

cheers-
/daniel

[Chad Hipolito]

Not until you forget to do up a zipper on your backpack and a lens falls out onto the sidewalk below during a rash of obscenities including 'scum of the earth' for taking photos at a funeral. 

[Derek Ruttan]

You have so many empty films cans in your trunk that the car would float should you drive it into the lake.

[Ben Ricetto]

Back in the film days, after shooting a roll of film you toss it in your camera bag, then when developing it you develop a fresh new roll instead of the one you shot on.

[Ron Bernardo]

...you've worked your as* off as freelancer...landed a staff job...got laid off...& working your as* off as  freelancer again.
...you know from memory the police channels on your scanner.
...shot 15,000 or more digital images in a span of only one day!

[Graeme Roy]

...stood on the stage with U2 in front of 65,000 people at the start of a show.

[Lyle Aspinall]

…shot a picture of Dog the Bounty Hunter without his sunglasses and have him suddenly stop his interview to "inform" you that he's "going to have to approve those photos before you leave" because you should tell him when you're about to shoot so he can maintain his sunglasses image.

…a Red Bull X-Fighters PR flack tells you tomorrow's photo op is at 3 p.m. and when you confirm the time, she says, "No, at 3 p.m."

…have the father of a teen who died of natural causes (unbeknownst to the photog) almost run you down on a sidewalk with his massive black SUV before getting out and having his five family members surround you and scream at you.

[vance lester]

Until you sit at Israel Immigration at King Husein bridge for hours while the 20 year old Military girls giggle at you and smile instead of letting you through to the West Bank.

[Didier Debusschere]

to nearly catch on fire ..... from flames shooting out from the stage floor at a metalica concert while shooting the lead singer with a wide angel lens .

 

[Mike Thomas]

Shooting at 40-below (during film the days and metal bodies) without the rubber moulding on the eyepiece and forgetting about that fact, while the condensation from your breath freezes it to your skin.

[Colin Corneau]

 

[Mike Thomas]

Yep, that pretty well sums it up.

[David Chidley]

Until you fixed a roll of film before developing it.