First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
I'm just a regular guy. I have two kids, I do photography, I pay my mortgage - I just happened to be on a TV show.
I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.