Read below the first lines of a very interesting article i read today at dpexpert.

“Buying a Nikon does not make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.” Anon
And very wise, too.

Back in the early sixties our friend Keith was a commercial photographer. A substantial part of his income came from taking wedding photographs.
Keith was deeply troubled by the sudden ubiquity of the single lens reflex camera. He reckoned that all those Pentaxes and Nikons, and even the old-fashioned Contaflexes, bode ill for his profession. He feared that once the amateurs got their hands on some good gear they would be able to do it themselves and the profession of photography would be doomed. He needn’t have worried.

A photographer is not a person with some expensive gear. A photographer is part artist and part craftsperson plus experience. Photographers know things about light and composition that is either intuitive or the product of learning by doing. Read the whole article here