What is Something that Bugs you About Photography

I have a few things in photography that annoys me. Much of it is situational, weather and time of day. When I'm trying to take pictures and the world decides to make it humid/hot and I REALLY want to go out to take tons of photos of my pets or even of wild animals up in the mountain side, but I can't because photography is all about being in all sorts of conditions, the good and the bad ones. The time of day bugs me because when I'm trying to find the right light or even the moment of something that happens during that time of day is ruined by having either too much light shine on me because of a cloudless day or even if I like the amount of light it's windy and a cloud goes in to block out the sun that makes my pictures look bleary and sad, when I want them light and airy.

Other photographers can annoy me as well. I really dislike other photographers when I'm about to take a really good shot of the subject and their surroundings, but one person decides to get closer to the subject and be in the shot itself or scare of the subject of my photo. For example I went to a park up in the mountains that was known to have big horn sheep graze in the mornings, I got amazing shots in the first few minutes and this guy comes in and decides to get right up in their faces and scares of a huge group of bighorn sheep I was trying to take a shot of the whole group but could only take a group of two rather than ten.

Kids annoy me the most about photography. Especially when parents let their kids wander around and when kids wander they magically end up going into my shots. Whatever the shot may be a wandering kid will be in the corner, lucky I can Photoshop that. But when a kid goes right in the middle or through the picture I CAN'T do ANYTHING about it!

The worst is when adults pass right in the middle of my pictures. Just a few days ago I was helping 4-H promote their camps and clubs. At one point I was asked to take a group picture of kids playing with 4-H soccer balls for Facebook, I agreed, but as I was about to take the shot, about 2 groups of parents with 2 groups of kids moved right into my shot! The 4-H workers were real angry with those people, we had lots, I MEAN LOTS of cones to dissuade people from walking through the soccer ball kicking area. I had to WAIT to take the shot of kids, just ONE shot I had to WAIT for PARENTS to MOVE.

A combination of parents and loud rude kids is the WORST. When I'm trying to quietly take a shot of an animal sleeping at the zoo, the animal I was trying to not disturb gets woken up by a loud kid! Then their parent YELLS at the already LOUD kid. This always frustrates me when Im taking a nice PEACEFUL shot.