Something that really pisses me off is when news photographers mistake the purpose of what they are doing for art. It is not. Their purpose is to shoot images that give the viewer information, not to be clever. If they can do both at once, that's great, but otherwise, no.
For example: http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/rpSlideshows?articleId=USRTXB0A1#a=19
I got absolutely nothing out of that picture that was not already in the caption. In fact, if the picture did not include the caption, I wonder how many people would be able to identify the balloon by only seeing a sliver of the front side from a high angle. That picture does not give i