Although you should probably save the extra cash for the Royal Bat Mitzvah 300th Anniversary Platinum Engraved edition. It intrinsically takes better pictures. In fact, you'll be a better photographer even if you just hold one for a while.

It reminds me that the most important thing about photography isn’t having the best gear, isn’t the capture media, and isn’t technique or skill.

So what you're saying, is that I should stop saving up for that Ninoka, and just be happy with my Quickshot X3000?

And having that magic box wouldn't be complete w/o a custom 'Made in Minnesota' camera case. Alas, that's a topic for a later blog post from Mr. Praslowicz.

My favorite thing about the TiML is the occasional accidental masterpiece that they capture. It reminds me that the most important thing about photography isn't having the best gear, isn't the capture media, and isn't technique or skill. It's having the magic box with you when you see something neat.

If you were to look through my Flickr photostream you will see I have thousands of photos in which the collections and sets are more important to me than the individual photos. Although I do edit, label and tag each photo, removing the poorest examples from each collection I do not upload only prime photos, but rather entire story lines relating to a particular event in my life.

I've been following Flickr for a few years now and have always grouped it's users into two categories. Photographers and what Kip are calling the TiML'ers. I like the further taxonomic breakdown Kip is going into because I feel these two 'kingdoms' could be broken down into 'orders', 'phylum', et al.