For those of you who ask, "is that the camera that takes the really awesome pictures?" I say take a look at this shot. This was taken on my phone! In fact a recent book was published by a pro photog with nothing but iPhone shots! The point being that it is not the technology that matters, it is your vision that makes really awesome pictures. Sure, I have some fancy equipment that costs a fair penny but I also have five years of reading every book on photography I can find. Five years! That is the same number of years I spent getting a PhD in chemistry! In those years I studied structure, compositions, lighting, sun angles, posing, depth of field, and more. So why do I have all the fancy stuff if it doesn't matter? Well, I want to be able to capture beautiful images in every situation. A $5 disposable film camera can make the same image of the Egyptian pyramids in the early morning sunlight as my NIKON D2Xs. BUT, that disposable can't get photos of your kids running through a dim Roman cathedral or of your husband racing down a hill on his cyclo-cross debut race! To capture those images you need at least an slr, but you first need vision!
