Taking photos

 "Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own." ~Brooks Jensen

From Kaisaniemi gardens

This is true of course, but it does not work like that. The demands nowadays are different. You look back at those great photos and admire them, the photographers did wonderful things with the equipment they had, they took them at a place that is famous for some reason or other, like the gold digging areas  in Canada, they are historic photos. 

Nowadays you have equipment that gets you close to any subject, catches a bird in flight, you can photograph the eye of an insect or snowflakes. A good camera takes extremely sharp photos. I came to a photographer on Flickr who had taken photos of the end of a glacier. To me they looked great, but a commentator complained they were not sharp enough!

I cannot afford a systems camera. I have a couple of small point and shoot cameras that really take scarp photos only outside in good light conditions, I have trouble taking close-ups or macros, sometimes it works, other times  it doesn't. 
No-one now accepts a photo as great if it is badly focussed or not sharp (unless intentional). 

Whatever reason, I have not been successful on Flickr, I have only a few photos with views 4000 to 6000 or over. There is a new trend at the moment of getting thousands, even over 140 000  contacts, nowadays called followers. In that case, 
if those contacts click on their photo or even see it, they get thousands of views.

I certainly will not try to do that  :-))

Kaisaniemi gardens