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Some may be the results of having ridiculously expensive equipment.


Yeah. And Rembrandt no doubt had really good paint brushes.

There's a great deal more to it than the kind of equipment used, most important being the ability to see something extraordinary in the mundane and then have the vision and technique to extract it.

Oh, absolutely. However, in a number of those shots -- particularly some of the wildlife shots -- having reasonably expensive equipment (large, fast, zoom lenses in particular) does make a significant difference in a photographer's ability to capture that particular image. That kind of stuff doesn't generally happen within 50 feet of you. If it does, you're either walking around in a zoo, or very, very, very lucky.