Doing business via the internet is a modern day reality , not only for a photographer, but just about every one else who wants to stay in business:- this usually means full email inboxes with lots of interesting information hidden within.
Some emails however are a bit beyond reality, even from those who should know better: for instance amongst the stock photos wanted lists recently:-
action photos of Genghis Khan in battle:
photos of prison ships and convicts arriving in Australia:
and believe it not:-
a picture of Moses parting the waves.
At least this requestor had the good sense to add (although ignoring copyright) "a photo of an illustration will do".
But it is emails from "ordinary everyday people" which stretch the sense of good humour to the limit!
The daily dose of young (and not so young) women wishing to become models is probably the bane of every photographer, and while endeavouring to answer every email I receive with some constructive advice, I have given up explaining that modelling is a job needing dedication, talent, training and hard work, and not something to turn to when you can't get a "real job". And of course the largely vain hope that one in perhaps a thousand emails may reveal some inate talent to be nurtured, still lingers.
But it's the emails from the "boys" which provide the most perverse humour tickling insight into humanity at large. I seem to average one of these emails a week, all very much the same, and I quote: "If ya eva wanna a guy for male/female photoshoots jus gimme a bell"
Which to me says far more than I ever wish to contemplate, doesn't it?
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