I'm an amateur. I bought my Canon EOS77D in July 2022 just before my honeymoon (and because of that); asked a professional friend of mine to teach me at lease the difference between ISO and Shutter and then went on trying to take some good pictures (and fell in love straight away with photography).
What appeared to me is that a photo is a dialogue; the perfect balance between what you want to capture and what the subject wants to narrate