But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.