Do I need a Professional Photographer?

Today, everyone thinks they are a photographer. With the technology getting better and better every day, and the smart Phone seamlessly unattached from most people, photography is taking on a new form. However just Like Peter Adams once said, "Photography is not about cameras, gadgets, and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel." Peter could not be any truer in his comparisons. It takes more than a paintbrush to paint a Van Gough, It takes more than Flash to capture the Beauty seen in the Albert Watson photograph titled Andy Warhol, New York City, 1985. The understanding of composition, the true masters of Photography still practice the rules of composition that date back to before cameras, the Converging lines, Golden ratio, rules of thirds, balance, compositional weight, using triangles, understanding of Light and Shadow, and the list goes on. So wake up and drink some coffee, today's fancy camera's, cool little gizmos, and gear that is made to automate the photographic process lack one real aspect. The Eye of the Photographer.