So if you think this is a rant on how untalented losers treat artist let's wind it back a bit. I always enjoyed art in all shapes and forms in high school I loved to act and write even going as far as writing my own play about an alian crash landing in the woods and the tabloid photographer he drove insane and robbed.

After high school I was accepted into holland colleges pilot program fundamental arts there I learned about all kinds of new media and expanded on ones I knew and loved. It is also were I leaned to draw well sorta. I graduated the program as there first official graduate. Out of a class of 15 I was one out only three to do so. Not bad saying my first thought right after I heard our first term coriculum was "oh shit I'm screwed"

After fundamental arts I moved on to photography and let's say film was not my friend it took three months to find out I can't focus a medium format camera to save my life. After that though I fell into my own and by the end of my first year I had found my passion for advertising.

In my second year I came back cramming for the photoshop ace exam. have finished my photoshop forensic certification in August. I worked hard and, in October after my instructor told me an image I had taken was not really that good I entered it in to adobe's photoshop inspiration gallery competion. Need less to say I forgot about it less then an hour later. A month after I got an email from an adobe rep telling me that I had won. It was about six months later I learned from a major photoshop instructor that the competion was to find the top ten in the world. This was all after I got a call from adobe asking me why I thought I failed my ace exam. That's right you read right I failed my ace exam. Any way after a long year that really was not long enough I graduated yet again.

Now that I have gone through my education let me go on to say how I an defining myself as an artist. Yes I am a photographer but I like to say I am a lucky amicture at art but as long as I put my sole into it that will make it art. I would like to add before my next statement that I am at the stage of my artistic life where my opinion is all my work is crap were it really is not that bad to out sanding depending on what it is. Know for some truth I view every thing I do as that of a luck amicture yes even photoshop so you see why I say don't go by my standards.

Now I know this is getting long and I really have not got to my pointband, that is what pains me the most. It is not people telling me you are so lucky to have a job where all you do is push a button. Me current response to this is there are dials to. I have heard a lot of things from the let's say untalented bunch even it must be so nice to play with crayons all day. Again this is not my point what pains me most about art is not the people who bash it, it is my Carpal tunnel.