Lately I’ve been carrying my camera around and people start questioning the purpose of doing so. I told them I’m ‘practicing’ but it wasn’t convincing enough.

Someone: “Photography need to practice one meh?”

I laughed it off before my sarcasm hurt someone but I’d really love to reply this -

Me: “Erm no, all I have to do is imagine my eyes are 14mm-42mm, retract or expand my iris from to F3.4 - F16, adjust my eye lids’ blinking speed accordingly and take mental pictures. Of course my retinal is different from a camera sensor so it can be an issue when I use a real camera in place. Oh and, my eyes’ metering mode and white balance is different from my camera’s as well but hey, I can save up on shutter counts this way.”

I’ve run into the same response more than once and no, I’m not trying to shoot anyone down.