A long time ago, I started a small list of funny, amusing, tragic, and just plain true "facts" about photographers in the footer of my journal. I'd now like to share them with everyone and invite all of the “true” photographers out there to add their own!

Your equipment costs more than your car. (2 pts)
You often lay on the ground (in public) to get a different perspective in the middle of the sidewalk or street. (1 pt)
^ You no longer even acknowledge the weird looks people give you. (1 pt)
You have gotten wet trying to get a particular shot. (1 pt)
You have risked your life or hurt yourself trying to get a particular shot. (2 pts)
You have been stopped by the police/security/paranoid citizens for shooting (photos). (2 pts)
You have been prosecuted for trespassing because "it looked better from over there." (5 pts)
You have the photo/video page on craigslist in your quicklinks. (1 pt)
You own more cameras than pairs of shoes. (2 pts)
You've dropped a piece of equipment that is more expensive than the sum of what is in your bank account. (1 pt)
^ You're still paying for that particular incident. (2 pts)
You have access to a camera 90% of the time. (1 pt)
^ You curse yourself during the other 10%. (1 pt)
You can’t drive anywhere without pulling over to stop for a picture. (1 pt)
You have a tan line from the camera strap. (2 pts)
You've sold your services (or prints) to someone you are not related to/friends with. (1 pt)
You are able to manually focus and shoot without dropping your cigarette - ~dehk (1 pt)
90% of the time, you remember to take your lens cap off - ~dehk (1 pt)
You've defrosted your battery in the car's defrost before because it got so cold in the winter that the battery wouldn't work - ~dehk (2 pts)
You use your household vacuum to clean your sensor! - ~dehk (2 pts)
You have multiple packets of silica gel in your camera bag...and you live in Colorado... (2 pts for silica gel)
You've gotten on top of your car to gain a little extra height for a shot - *HaikuKitty (1 pt)
You curse and swear when people walk into the scene when you're just about to shoot, especially a nice landscape - =Timothy-Sim (1 pt)
When your friends are tired of getting their picture taken for portrait shots - ~raven2007 (1 pt)
It's when even your mother starts limiting how much you spend just to buy camera equipment. And you're an adult already! - =Timothy-Sim (1 pt)
You will travel 3 hours to grab 'the perfect shot' and not think twice about it - =SeptSky (1 pt)
When you're shooting wildlife and suddenly the animals don't even care your around anymore - =htdcam81 (1 pt)
If you can wear out the eye cap on your viewfinder - ~dehk (1 pt)
When your girlfriend is pissed off, when you take out your camera for a shot again, because you lose sight of her all the time - ~Les-Paul-DA (1 pt)
You know you're a real photographer when your family/friends/and strangers you normally pass by on the street complain or say snide remarks about you taking your camera with you EVERYWHERE you go! - *butrfly2022005 (1 pt)
If you work with film, you constantly smell of darkroom chemicals - =Graelyn-chan (1 pt)
When you've told a girl: "You look good in this light" and meant it - ~ExplosionAnomaly (2 pts)
^ Then you proceed to take out your camera and capture the moment - =Graelyn-chan (2 pts)
When you check your reflection in the LCD - ~PalePeach (1 pt)
When you know that "f-stop exposure" isn't a dirty term - ~PwnBot2000 (1 pt)
When you wake up in the morning to catch a nice sunset - =since91 (1 pt)
You appreciate everything around you. From the smallest ant to the beauty of the sunset and the beauty of smiling people - ~happinessandguilt (1 pt + )
Your purse weighs an extra 3 lbs from extra batteries and cards - =ICUR2Ys4ME (1 pt)
You get a face full of dirt because you’re too close to the action - =ICUR2Ys4ME (1 pt)
You sneak a camera into a concert in a hidden compartment - somewhere - =ICUR2Ys4ME (1 pt)
You spend an hour tracking down the BAR owner so you can get permission to shoot the band playing at his venue - =ICUR2Ys4ME (2 pts)
You drive towards the tornado that everyone else is fleeing from - =ICUR2Ys4ME (2 pts and =trevg’s official stamp of AWESOME)
Your camera is safer than your booze - =ICUR2Ys4ME (1 pt)
Your child automatically makes stupid faces as soon as they see the camera emerge - =ICUR2Ys4ME (1 pt)
You have over 9000 images on CDs - =ICUR2Ys4ME (1 pt + 1 bonus point for the "over 9000 reference")
I once asked a girl to come into my hotel room so I could flash her, and for once, I wasn't actually trying to be creepy - ~RHalpain (1 pt)
Your friend asks you what you'd do if she fell out of a tenth story window and before you can answer your other friend says: "She'd probably just take a picture of it." - =latticeworkopines (2 pt)
You catch yourself staring at someone intently and when they give you a puzzled look, you explain: "It was an awesome shot." - =latticeworkopines (1 pt)
You've carried more than two cameras to a party - =latticeworkopines (1 pt)
You bring your camera to school or work so you get the sunrise in the morning - =latticeworkopines (1 pt)
You've run long distances through brambles, briars, over barbed wire fences and across busy intersections to get a shot that ended up being obscured or not as cool as you thought - =latticeworkopines (3 pts)
Your icebreaker at parties is "You're really cool looking. Model for me?" - =latticeworkopines (1 pt)
Also, a lot of my friends are actors, so I'm the official 'headshot girl' and while I don't object to the term, I prefer to think of it as a description of my exceptional marksmanship come the zombie apocalypse - =latticeworkopines
When you want to get a certain shot at night and you use your car headlights as your light source because you are away from most of your equipment - =ColdSubject (1 pt)
When you walk into a pond so you can get a shot from the surface of the pond - ~Juice-04 (2 pts)
When you fall down stairs because your paying to much attention to the lighting and angles of the ceiling - ~Juice-04 (2 pts)
When you get orgasms at opening the case of a new camera - =NineWhileNine (.69 pts)
When, wherever you go, you unconsciously look for a good shot, even when you don't have your camera with you - =silber-englein (1 pt)
When you spend your extra money on props, backgrounds, and wardrobes - =romirose22 (1 pt)
When you can't have a conversation without checking the light for great possibilities - =romirose22 (1 pt)
When you turn down a movie to go shoot 'this great place you've been eyeing' - `mom-the-bomb (2 pt)
You’re shooting photos with the camera you’ve been wanting forever (D3x, MKIII, etc.) and then you wake up. (1 pt)
The people at Wolf Camera, Mike’s Camera, B&H, all know you by name. (1 pt)
You’d fight a mugger before you let them steal your gear on the street. (1 pt)
^ You’ve done this before. (2 pt)
^ You kicked their ass. (4 pts)
You don’t let anyone touch your gear. (1 pt)
You know what every function and option does on your camera. (1 pt)
People often ask you to take photos of them with their own camera because they see you with all your gear and assume you know what you’re doing. (1 pt)
^ You offer to do so before they even ask you. (2 pts)
Anything less than 8.0MP is “simply unacceptable.” (1 pt)
You laugh at the mere thought of “digital zoom.” (1 pt)
RAW or nothin’, baby! (1 pt)
You’ve woken up before 4AM for a photoshoot. (1 pt)
You know what CCD and CMOS stand for. (1 pt)
You’d rather break your arm than break your camera. (1 pt)
You have insurance on all of your gear. (1 pt)
You always know EXACTLY where your equipment is. (1 pt)
You’ve walked 10 or more miles for a shot. (2 pts)
You have read this entire list and are now frightened at how many of these “facts” apply to you… (1 pt)

(And no, the points don’t mean anything.)