About my equipment

"Great meal. What pots did you use?"

Pots and knives do make a significant difference when cooking -- you can't make sushi without a sharp knife, and you can't cook a steak without a frying pan. However, most people wouldn't make the mistake of thinking that the pots and the knives made the meal -- but interestingly enough, many people do think that the camera makes the picture.

I get asked a good deal about what equipment I used to take the pictures in my portfolios. In fact, I have rather a lot of photographic equipment, more than I regularly use, and some of it a good deal better than I need. I am a bit of a gearhead, after all. I haven't listed the equipment with my pictures, though, because I like to think that whatever merits they may have are due to the way they were taken, rather than what tools were used. Since the tools of the trade do play a big part in the kinds of pictures that can be taken with them, though, I decided to write this piece. If this interests you, read on.