No joan that's not the intention, everyone works with what they have and my pictures were not as good when I started making shots either... just takes some time and lots of interest. As they say makeing good nature-pictures requires 3 qualities of the photogapher :
- he must be a good technician
- he must be a nature lover and understand his topics/animals and how they behave
- he must have some artisitc capacities (composition, the skill to see what others don't, ...)
I think I reasonably well for the first 2 ,but I'm not as good as I would wanne be on the 3rd...