If you look at a famous painting, you don't wonder what brand of brushes the now-decomposing artist used. Of course, if you go to a painters forum, you'll see passionate debates about which brand of brush to use.

Only a poor craftsperson blames their tools, but a good craftsperson will tend to get better results with better tools.

I'm primarily a film shooter, even though outside of photography, I'm quite "digital". My tastes in cameras are best described as somewhat idiosyncratic. I like to own reasonably priced cameras that can be made to produce excellent results.

Staircase up a rocky cliff
A staircase carved into a rock face at the beach
trees
A cluster of trees I saw in the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena.
Bromeliad
A view down the front of a Bromeliad flower.
Snapdragon
This is a snapdragon I grew from seed that I took extreme closeup pictures of. At this level of closeness, there's a whole new world you can see in the snapdragon.
A battle between
A battle between two sides of color, with a woman in the middle
Through the Valley of Chairs
A view through a series of chairs
Butterfly
A butterfly created with multicolored lights