I m anti-equipment. When I teach workshops the first thing I tell all my students is to go back to their rooms with all those cameras and pick only one camera with only one lens. Wait for good light. You need a lot of patience. I have been in places where I saw beautiful light coming just as everyone else was leaving.
Good photography is about thinking and seeing, patience, and personal relationships.
It s a combination of things. Becoming educated about your subject is important, but intuition plays a part too. When it comes right down to it, photography is about persistence, intuition, and the ballet of how people move.