Why did you first pick up a camera and take a photograph?  It matters not whether the camera is part of a mobile phone, a mirrorless or compact camera and it does not matter what settings you used.  What matters is that you took a first step in a journey that not even you know where it is going to go or end. I started taking photographs in earnest around 2008 and when I type that it hits home that I have been on a journey for a while.  I have never been academically gifted an