Nowadays everyone has some type of entry level DSLR and that has seemed to influence everyone to believe that they are a professional photographer. How do I know this? Because I work in a photo center.

I do brake jobs and other small jobs for my friends/coworkers here and there for extra cash, but does that make me a professional mechanic? Or a mechanic at all? Hell no! If I called myself a mechanic just because I do the occasional job here and there I should get slapped. And I feel that photography is no different. There are only a handful of real photographers I know....people who take photos as their main job. Like Chad. He's a pro photog, cool. But to call any person a photographer who picks up an slr I feel demeans the art form, honestly. I'm not saying that these people aren't good or can't produce nice images(even though most produce junk), but it doesn't mean you're a photographer. It means you like taking photos as a hobby.

What do you think? Am I wrong, is everyone with an slr a photog?