passion
Photography is one the most accesible art forms: anyone can make an image!
Today, camera gear won't make you stand out as much as it used to. Gone are the days when only a handful of people could afford to shoot, develop and print on a regular basis.
In this new world, all that's left to make a photographer stand out is vision and passion: how you see the world and how bad you want to make images.
That's it.
Photography requires -almost- no technical skills anymore. Modern cameras are able to perfectly expose a scene most of the time.
That alone doesn't make good images, though.
What is it, then? What's the difference between greatness and mediocrity in photography?
Talent -as in a naturally given ability to appreciate beauty- plays a role in this.
A lack of talent can be overcome, though, by anyone who possesses what I believe is the key to great art: passion.
While technical skills and talent can give a photographer a head start, only passion will bring them beyond the point where photographers without it can't go.
