It's really true how you lose what you don't use... and another reason why an eidetic memory would be an awesome super power.
I haven't picked up a SLR camera since the photography class I took my senior year of high school. I spent the first day of my glorious 4-day weekend relearning basic concepts like aperture, f-stops, and shutter speeds via the Internet... which then of course, inevitably led to me getting lost on Wikipedia following in-article links. At one point, I ended up on an article about James Clerk Maxwell and electromagnetic theory. But, I digress.
In any case, because the camera bag I ordered hadn't arrived yet when I went out for a hike this morning and I ran errands like a real adult all day, I didn't manage to get out and shoot in outdoor light like I originally wanted. It was probably for the best, since I ended up with a lot of blurry or way too dark pictures of stationary objects around my apartment while playing around with apertures and shutter speeds.
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The one thing I do remember from the photography class way back when (and well-corroborated by The Interwebs) is that great photos are more a product of technique and the artistic eye of the photographer, and less to do with the equipment. After all, Ansel Adams' work is still unparalleled, and he was photographing long before the many technological advances.
I'll have to take a cue from him and other photographers and just practice, practice, practice. Good thing I have the rest of this weekend to do just that! Updates to come.