A Lesson We All Must Learn

I believe great lessons are learned during hard times.  Hopefully these lessons remain when times are good.  The lesson every photographer must learn is the equipment is a very small part of the resulting image.  It is easier to create a great image with an unlimited amount of time and an unlimited amount of money.  It is much more rewarding to create something amazing out of seemingly nothing.  Photographers have a bad habit of believing their images will improve once they get that new super megapixel camera or very expense European studio lights.  A great photographer can capture a compelling image with only a box and a sheet of film.  Renoir not only believed that it could be done, but that it was better.

"The more you rely on good tools, the more boring your sculpture will be."