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"you must have a very good camera" is a good start...

 

:lol:

 

This is the mandatory starter, of course. Personally, I don't receive lots of comments about my photos, most evidently because I publish them only to my site (with very rare exceptions) and I don't enable comments on it. But I take personally insults directed at other photographers, and one of the worst one is "How lucky you was"; typically referring to an outstanding photo where the moment an osprey predates a fish has been frozen, or a bee-eater offering a bug to his mate, or a wonderfully composed landscape with everything at the right place... ignoring the patience and the preparation that led to the final image.

 

There's an outstanding episode about this insult that I still remember perfectly: at an exhibit of the former BBC wildlife photographer of the year prize, there was a perfect photo of a grebe reaching the nest and offering food to the chicks. It was taken literelly on the surface of the water - so you get it, perfect bokeh etc... A lady commented the infamous "how lucky he was", ignoring that the caption near the photo was explaining how the photographer got it after wearing an underwater suit, entering the pond before the dawn to avoid being spotted, and passed several hours still in the cold water, with the camera and lens laid over a floating element...

 

While this insults falls in the same category "it's thanks to everything, but the photographer", I find it particularly disturbing because it ignores the fact that a photo is the result of the process, and not necessarily a single instant...

 

PS @Studor13: can you please give the references of the green book "The Alps" at the right side of the first posted photo? It's intriguing me...