This photo right here is why you will never be good at photography. Half of this board whines about equipment, the other half whines about lack of opportunity. This photo requires neither, and yet surpasses anything I’ve ever seen in this dump in the last twelve or thirteen years. Literally anyone could have taken this photo and yet didn’t. The tools are right there in your hands, the photo is right there in front of you. It’s sitting there in rough lumps of clay and it’s up to you to sculpt it, to assemble the disparate bits into cohesive meaning and yet you won’t and you can’t. Instead you’ll fool yourself into thinking that you need a $3000 lens because it’s better than Bob’s $2800 lens. Or you’ll both about how you live in a boring city and can’t afford to travel, never mind that great photographers spend heaps of money to travel to your town and all of its weirdness. You’ll do this because the ugly naked truth of photography, like all art, is that there is requirement of talent. You have to be born with it, or you have to work hard enough to create it, but it’s never something you can fake.