Spent 20 years in Film/TV/ Stills doing everything from Feature Films, to Commercials, Documentaries, Corporate Stuff, Advertising Still work on location (my stock photo collection brought me 405 of my income for years until Corbis bought the agency I sold thru and bought my portfolio for a nice piece of $$$).

I still do 80% of the Architectual still work for my firm for advertising and historical uses and frequently do the same for the building owners on one of our high rise jobs. Just recently finished a series for Ironworkers Local 46 (Rebar Lathers in NYC) and maybe going to Dubai to do a series on the 9 buildings we have under construction there (one of the 6 wonders of Dubai that was on the Discovery channel was one of ours 8=) )

I still use the older glass, Nikon stuff from the first generation Pro digital line. Better glass and better all metal mousings on a new 12MB body.

But the toys are just toys, its what my Eye sees that counts...any ******* can pick up a camera dn shoot a picture, but where to shoot, what to shoot, when to shoot, what does it say, what do you want it to say, etc..that is the difference between a Photographer and a Button Pusher.

I can still make a good living at it and I still enjoy it as I did when I started 38 years ago.