It's not the camera, it's you!

After blogging about why it's not about gear, I inevitably didn't listen to my own advice and looked at the gear.
In my defence, so far I have been mainly selling equipment.

I have decided that the reason I have some cameras and lenses gathering dust in cupboards is that I just don't get along with them. Intrinsically there is nothing wrong with them and they are all capable of producing good photographs. They just rarely get the chance to do so.  Rather than trying to change myself to suit the equipment, I have decided to change the equipment to suit myself.

I have a set of underlying rules I am broadly adhering to: buy something/sell something - no new equipment without making space in the cupboard! The total money invested must not be exceeded - the transactions must be self financing, without the need for further investment