[robski]

Too much focus on hardware. Knowing how to use the hardware and to get that image on paper or screen is the skill. It is having an eye for what would makes a good shot wether you have a camera with you or not. Cursing when it's not with you. Cursing because you can't stop in the fast lane of a motorway to get a sunset.

Some have an eye for the technical others for the beautiful or bizzare. It's what makes us human and different. A sign of a good photograph is when another photographer says to themselves I wish I took that.

Photography as a pastime has waxed and wained over the years but old photographers never die. I am in my second heaven with my DSLR kit.

Now to become one of the Greats that does take a unique style if you are coming up from nowhere, otherwise it's the same old story of money, connections and influence.