Photography

In one word its all about: VISION.
. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like. The production of pictures by the photochemical action of light on films of chemicals sensitive to light, and also the production of electronic images in electronic cameras, are both considered types of photography. [1913 Webster]

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor.
It's never been about the gear.It's always been about seeing something.Powers of observation are everything in art of photography.Photography and painting are the same. Each renders imagination in tangible form.

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.