A friend of mine has a strong personal history of travel and photography. I feel she has the balance right I feel, being more about the travel, less about the photography, but that does not mean she does not have a good eye for a photo.
The images inn this post are from her last trip and were all taken on a fairly basic Canon compact camera bought about six to eight years old, a limited measure of restoration after the Fuji XA-1 I sold her went missing a couple of trips ago.
It has not stopped her.
She does bring me her best, so I can “tweak” them a little, but often that is only limited to a little de-haze or colour boost if needed.
The camera has given her a painterly effect here, something I could add nothing to.
Some shots are obvious destination shots, but well executed.
Others are the sorts of things non-photographers tend to walk past.
Some are also technically risky, but are tackled with a photographic brain far deeper than the “gear” would suggest.
Like all of us, there is a thread that runs through her work, coming in the form of staircases.
A lesson to me and others that sometimes less gear is very much more productivity.