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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 491715" data-attributes="member: 13090">Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but while I'm willing to concede a correlation, perhaps, with new, or upgraded gear and better photography but only because that new gear is facilitating new, creative experiences, or providing us with a different perspective and that, in turn, is what truly improves our photography. IMO, there's still a critical difference summed up in that old saw about it not being the tool, but the hand of the Master. The tool can aid what is inherently there, and looking to be improved (!), but the tool itself, again, is simply the facilitator of our creative impulse. Could I not say if not for my car taking me to cool locations to shoot I wouldn't have some of my better shots? But how many of us give credit to our cars for making us better photographers?I'm not trying to sound argumentative, these are just some of my thought's on the matter....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 491715, member: 13090"] Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but while I'm willing to concede a correlation, perhaps, with new, or upgraded gear and better photography but only because that new gear is [I]facilitating[/I] new, creative experiences, or providing us with a different perspective and that, in turn, is what truly improves our photography. IMO, there's still a critical difference summed up in that old saw about it not being the tool, but the hand of the Master. The tool can aid what is inherently there, and looking to be improved (!), but the tool itself, again, is simply the facilitator of our creative impulse. Could I not say if not for my car taking me to cool locations to shoot I wouldn't have some of my better shots? But how many of us give credit to our cars for making us better photographers? I'm not trying to sound argumentative, these are just some of my thought's on the matter. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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