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Well, I think, the really great snapshots that have gone into the books and have become "history", as it were, are photos taken on the spur-of-the-moment by someone who in the (many) years BEFORE said famous snapshot was taken has gone the full length of learning their trade. Starting out with the much dreaded and heavily discussed "formalisms" that so many "won't buy", and going through that and into their own style with all they are: their sense of the technology of the thing they do, their visual sense (they have learned to LOOK and SEE), and their entire personality. They have matured in learning ... and the GREAT snapshots of this world SHOW that maturity. That is what makes them so great, i.e. the fact that a full grown personality - with a sound knowledge of what they were doing when they "took the snap" - took that photo. They have learned to previsualise sooooooooo fast, they KNEW what they were doing the moment they VERY QUICKLY took their photo. That is where there is the big difference between the great snaps and those of someone who has a camera.