So when I have my Nikon, the only restriction is where I can’t reach. Now take that same Nikon, those same shooting abilities, and soar through the sky with it. I can go anywhere I want and I can shoot anything I want. That’s a lot of new choices available to me.

I’m not saying I don’t get excited when I see drones getting great cameras, it’s just not needed to get a great photo.

A side-story about too many options

I started shooting on my grandfather’s Nikon D200. For 2005, this was an amazing camera. Even better, Nikon finally had an amazing zoom lens, the 18–200mm lens. I could go shoot everything I wanted with that one lens on my camera, right? Yes, if I had already known what I wanted to shoot. My grandfather loved that setup and it ended up being the last one he used. He already knew what he wanted to shoot and that lens gave him the flexibility to leave his camera bag behind.

But when I started taking photos, it was overwhelming. I had no idea what to shoot. The possibilities were too endless for someone that was new to photography. I never knew what zoom to use and 50% of the time I couldn’t even get the camera to take a shot because I didn't how to use it. That setup was too complicated and the possibilities were too endless.

I dug out some old prime lenses that my grandfather had and I focused on what I should shoot and where I should go. I had to actually move around with the prime lenses. I had to do research into why the camera wasn’t taking photos. I found out that in 2014 that the D200 wasn’t exactly top-of-the-line and I could only shoot so much. These things forced me to start looking for the photo and stop worrying about the gear.