No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

—Ken Rockwell

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Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.

—Ken Rockwell

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

—Ken Rockwell

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

—Ken Rockwell

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Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

—Ken Rockwell

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

—Henri Cartier-Bresson

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.

—Gene McSweeney

The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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11 Jul 2015 Added