Saw this from CS, very interesting!

You know you’re a photographer when…

• 1 GB of memory lasts most people a month but barely lasts you the afternoon. (Fortunately I have a 4GB one.)
• You know what aperture-priority means.
• You delete more photos in a week than most people make all year.
• You always need just one more lens. (”Quick! Change lens!”)
• You’ve crawled on the ground to get a shot of something. (I would do that if I were a guy. For girls, we probably use the liveview mode. =X)
• Your camera equipment is worth more than your car.
• No one else brings a camera to an event if they know you’re coming.
• Your family doesn’t recognize you without a camera covering your face.
• You have thousands of pictures and you’re not in any of them.
• You’ve been up before dawn, or out in the freezing cold, or even done something semi-dangerous…all for a photograph. (Remember this? And I plan to do more of that. =X)
• Your friends ask you to shoot their weddings.
• You have enough camera bags in your closet to pack up your entire house.
• You choose airlines based on carry on baggage allowance.
• CS3 is a software program and not a school you attended as a child.
• Your family cringes every time you say, “I’ll be right there, I just need to take a couple shots of this.”
• You look at a gradient of a clear day’s sky and try to find spots on the sensor. (Or are there any dusts on the lens.)
• When you go to movies you spend more time trying to figure out their lighting than trying to figure out the plot. (OMG, I realized I do that, but only when the scenes are in dark conditions.)
• When you lose track of a dramatic conversation between two characters in a movie because you’re too busy paying attention to the nice bokeh behind them….
• When you go on a road trip timing everything to get the best light at the places you want to stop…
• You feel incredibly happy when you walk into a room with sunlight-balanced bulbs.
• When you get done shooting a bunch of shots, pack up your gear, then 2 minutes later you’re kicking yourself because you see something worth shooting. (This is FREAKIN TRUE!)
• When you realize that EVERY SINGLE TIME that you don’t have your camera, the perfect shot is right in front of you! (This is FREAKIN TRUE too! Daim it.)
• When you start enoying your photos as photos, rather than pixels.
• When a beautiful girl is laying in front of you wearing nothing but her knickers and the only reason you want her to remove them is because the colour clashes with the backdrop.
• Your baby’s first full sentence is: “STOP taking pictures!”
• You tell firefighters “save the camera and computer, the rest can burn……” when you think your house is on fire. (turned out the fan belt fell off and the kill switch didn’t kill…..)
• When you get a call at 1am from the neighbors telling you “turn that damn strobe light off”.
• When you reply that it isn’t a “strobelight”, but a flash gun
• When looking at playboy, you don’t see the naked woman, you see art.
• When your cameras, lenses, and computers are the most expensive things you own. (Shyt.)
• When you drive by a frozen over ugly marsh of broken down trees can visualize the beautiful finished image.
• When you stop saying “on the count of three”.
• You buy a new dog and the first thing the family says is “You just bought it so you will have something to take pictures of.”
• When your CEO walks into the office and asks “Anybody here who’s familiar with digital cameras?” and all eyes turn to you…
• When the UPS man says “See ya tomorrow”.
• When your children are named “Canon” and “Nikon” and your dog is named “Gitzo”. (Manfrotto, Benro, or Slik also can!)
• When all you can think about is what lens/gear your going to buy next. (Dreaming of my first L lens already. Wait long long…)
• When you eat, drink, breathe, sleep, walk, talk, crap, sing, dance, and act photography.
• When you teach your photo teacher new things each class period!
• When you hear a TV commercial for the “Curves” workout program for women, and the first thing that comes to mind is Photoshop’s “Curves” adjustments. (I’m so addicted to pressing Ctrl+M in Photoshop recently.)
• When you see a pretty young lady with a tan and try to figure out what the exposure should be.
• Everyone evacuates for a hurricane, but you wanna stay for the pictures.
• You walk into a building looking for composition angles… (One kind of weirdo.)
• You get married and you want to take your own wedding photos.
• When you find yourself nodding, agreeing and laughing at everything you’re reading on this note and realise you do at least 3/4 of the stuff in it!