Originally Posted by Robbie

How disrespectful of you Paul.

I've been in the entertainment business all my life. Longer than you have for sure. And yes, playing in bands, and entertaining LIVE crowds around the world taught me how to market and entertain "old school"...almost carnie-style.

You? You were a camera guy working for other people. I've never been disrespectful to you at all. But if you want to talk about people the "industry didn't need"...then let's be honest.

At the beginning of YOUR career you were just another young, hungry guy trying to make it. If you had not "made it" someone else would have been there doing those magazine shoots and making that same paycheck you did.

What I do isn't something that anybody with a camera and a few years can "learn".
You have no right or even any reason to be disrespectful to me in any way at all.

I hope you have a nice life. I do respect you as a photographer. I also agree that piracy and the stealing of entire members areas and studio catalogs is killing this business. I don't agree that the affiliate/sponsor business model we had before did anything but elevate the business.

I'm not going to discuss this with you anymore. And I would ask you to please not be a jackass when you address me. I have shown you that much respect. I'd like it back. I have placed you in a category with people that I don't talk to in that manner, but I won't sit here and have you talk to me like that for no reason at all.

Let's keep our debate civil with one another and let the trolls and "witty" comments from them keep them at their low level, and let's at least act like we have a little class when we talk to each other. Agreed?