To my (very amateur, very enthusiast) mind, there are lots of great images on TMA taken with lesser equipment, some of the grainy old scans and early digital images posted in the site's formative years are just as evocative and informative as those taken by a pro or semi-pro with the best equipment.

There is an element of the tone of this thread that suggests TMA should raise its submission bar to be a collection of pictures worthy of entering into competitions, to be judged purely on questions of exposure, or shutter speeds. If this is the case, a lot of enthusiastic but amateur contributors probably wouldn't have the confidence to post pictures here any longer, and I reckon we'd lose more than we gained as a result. I'd like to think that TMA is a broad enough church to accommodate both the fine art and the enthusiast who wants to "show and tell". It's all about the sites, after all.