Savageduck
Yup! You are a snob trying to justify your snapshots. Welcome to the club. ;-) Even a snapshot is a photograph.

First define a photograph. Photograph: (noun) a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally.

Then define photographer. Photographer: (noun) a person who takes photographs.

BTW; the dictionary has this to say regarding snapshot. Snapshot: (noun) an informal photograph taken quickly, typically with a small hand held camera.