Create! Resist the gear lust

With the advent of digital manipulation in the art world, what has
happened to the conversation about the work? When I say work I mean
the actual creative choices the artist has made. Lately the
conversations I have been involved in are more about the gear used.
This computer has more power, a new 500 mega pixel camera that
everyone lusts over or this new piece of software that has some must
have new feature. The gear is not what creates. What are the choices
that you are making? Why did you choose to frame that image in that
way? What are you trying to say? Creating is more about telling a
story than how many mega pixels a camera is.