The romance of photography means that our perception of what photographers actually do is distorted. These pie charts by A Photo Editor may help correct some popular misconceptions.
The big chunk of time that editing and other administrative tasks take up is something I can relate to.
I wonder what pie charts for other people in the arts, like myself, would look like? Hmmm … let’s see …

h/t swissmiss
Cat videos get 10% huh. Working w photographers for years, I can back up that pie chart. Think artists might want to conceal the reality and let the myth prevail. Reading is a ginormous percentage of mine.
Cat videos are more of a metaphor for all those things that happen online that I’d rather not list one by one 🙂
If you watched fewer cat videos you could go to more parties.
Did I mention that some of those cat videos were of cats at parties?
an oldie but goodie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU
Karen, I hadn’t seen that one. It’s a classic. Amazing.
did you see weightless cats this week?
That’s like the original cat video. Internet gold.
HAD a hunch indeed, but still these pie-charts are very illustrative!