I am a fairly intelligent person. I realize that people have potential to be someone and something else, in fact any thing that they set their minds on to be. Things have no potential. They exist and they were made with capability. Potential and capability are not the same. With potential, you have to transcend yourself, go beyond yourself and be something else. Potential implies something within you that you do no possess as yet but have to live up to or evolve into. No amount of trying will make a skillet anything more than a skillet. Yes, definitely, one person can use a skillet more thoroughly and fully than another. Does that mean the skillet has changed? No you just used up more of it's capability, the skillet does not have any capability to change it's very nature only a person does.
So your saying what has this got to do with anything? Simple, I have noticed and quite often too that people often equate potential with capability and in so doing equate increasing their potential with whatever material possessions they have. Granted you acquire more and more things with added capability but does that increase your potential. Maybe, if you grow into it but often not.
My blog just outlines my quest to realize my potential using materials and instruments that most people have written off as being inferior. For instance, my choice of cameras, the Sony Alpha 300 was laughed at to my face my almost everyone that I meet. To the vast majority of people (except of course, the Minolta and Alpha boys and girls), if you want to shoot seriously with a DSLR, you have to have a Nikon or a Canon. Well, bull crap. I am willing to bet that Margaret Bourke-White or Yousuf Karsh with a Brownie can outshoot 98% of all the Nikon and Canon owners in the world. Where does that come back to? It's you the photographer what takes your pictures, that figures out the composition, the lighting, all the different parameters like shutter speed and aperture openings. The camera is just a tool. This is what I want people to realize
