While good equipment helps, there's no replacement for plain old practise

WHEN I was a lad during the time of dinosaurs and before the invention of the Internet, taking photos was the domain of professionals — people with huge expense budgets, massive equipment (in more ways than one!) and a long period between shutter release and publication.

Now, anyone with a smartphone and a social media account can be published with no limit and in almost real time. “Selfie” just made it as a word in the Oxford dictionary.