TO ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS: What's the dumbest question you've ever been asked?

I was at a park that has a waterfall that I was taking pictures of and waked the trail to the other side for more pictures and met a couple walking the opposite way and they asked me "if i was taking picture of the Falls"...????nope i'm here for the zebra hiding in the bush,lol...silly.

I used to work as a pet photographer, and got all sorts of stupid questions! Can you get my dog to sit with these three props for this photo? Sure, just take your dog right over there, and have her sit. Well, she doesn't know how to sit... she's an outdoor dog. Then how am I supposed to make her sit? When I was taking photos of a Christmas setup with lights all set up and everything, one woman asked me, "Can you take pictures without a tripod? Because I don't know where my dog will end up." I told her, "Yes I can, but if your dog ends up away from the lights, you're not going to have a nice photo." Ohhh... and my favorite one. I ended up with a blurry photo of this one small dog because it was running. Well, it wasn't a good photo no matter how you looked at it. But the owners wanted it. So I told them unless they got it in wallet sized, it would be blurry. They say, "You just told the people ahead of us that your could edit out their dog's leash in PhotoShop, but you can't even fix a blurry photo?" And I mean, this photo was really blurry, you couldn't fix it for anything! I have one friend who is always asking me things too. And she was asking me the other day how to get photos off her memory cards and onto CDs. And I'm like, "Wait a minute, you've had that camera for months..." and she says, "Yeah, but I just buy a new memory card every time I want to take more photos." Doh!

I didn't have anyone asking questions. I am to busy when taking photos, I don't pay attention what is going on around.

Dumb question....??? Oh...a lot...Can you take me and my dog a photo?Can you take a photo on my brand new car?Can you tell me from what country did you get that cam? Stupid questions from stupid people. This is the world we live into.My opinion....if you don't know anything about cams or photos try to read, try to understand before you ask.

People frequently ask me how many pics I take. Last year, I happen to know it was around 7,000. When I reply with my answer, they ask, "Are you serious? You took that many pictures? Why did you take that many? What are you going to do with them all?" (as though I'm making them upload, store and print them) Sometimes I reply, "well, I'm going to wallpaper a room in my house with them" and they say...."really"? (Duhhhh....) Only a true photographer can appreciate how many pics another photographer takes. :)

I've never had a really dumb question. Usually it's just "So you're a photographer?" After my affirmative reply, they inevitably ask for me to take their picture. That gets real old, real quick.