Some shots from Hawaii. (8 shots)

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46. People concentrate too much on the specs...

Photography like most art is about... well... the art, lol. If you want to get into the analysis of photography, most successful images can be decomposed and analysed much the same way painting and sculpture can be. Many of the same artistic concepts such as the use of negative space, weighting, composition, colour theory etc etc are all at play. And none of this relies on having the latest and greatest camera gear. A seasoned photographer can take shots that would blow your mind with the simplest, cheapest, crappiest gear. While your vacation "snap-shot" taker, isn't going to get any better with $10,000 worth of gear.

Indeed you can get great work out of kit lenses. Of course there is a point where better gear does pay off, but that's usually not until you are already a pretty good photographer. Again this is similar to almost any other field of art.