At least I think it is. Has been for most of my 57 years.
I didn't always have the latest and greatest equipment, as a matter of fact, I didn't get my first "real camera" until I was out of high school. But it seems that I always had a camera that was mine to use as long as I "didn't waste (your) film." This along with the advice to always have the sun behind my back was the sum total of the photography education that I had as a child. My father, God rest his soul, was a good man and I miss him terribly, but he was totally wrong about his photography advice.
With today's fantastic idiot cameras, and I call them that because they are so easy to use, that almost any "idiot" (I use the term lovingly) can pick them up and get a fairly good, usable picture. The great thing about shooting digitally, it doesn't cost any more to take 1000 shots than it does to take 1, as long as you don't print all 1000 of them. There is no reason not to shoot and experiment every time you pick up your camera.
