Photographers a DEAD breed?

These days, everyone is a photographer, right? Not so fast.

Photographers need not head to the unemployment office to sign up for job training. Despite the outrageous pontifications (BS) from those individuals who are certain that the prosumer point-and-shoot is turning anyone who owns one into a master of photography, not EVERYone who shoots wants to be a master and not everyone who shoots has what it takes to BE a master. What's more, not everyone who shoots has what it takes to master the art and the science (marketing and sales, for example) of professional photography.

I'll be back in a bit to finish these thoughts ...